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Licked by a Troll or Trollicked

Devon Berry
1 min readFeb 14, 2020

He was licked by a troll.

It was like a sticky snot that covers your face when someone too close sneezes. Except, it was the ink of a pirate masquerading as a steward and it could not be wiped off.

It was like finding a snake in your sock drawer. Except, the frame speed on the moment played out over months instead of milliseconds.

It was like the sound that a dog makes when it licks your face. Except, the volume of the sound was amplified to an ear-splitting level.

It was like a cross between shampoo in your eyes and a sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia (the freeze your brain feels when you eat ice cream too fast). Except, the pain didn’t rinse out or warm-up.

It was like an unsightly rash for all to see where you couldn’t conceal it. Except, it wasn’t seen as just a rash, it was treated like coronavirus and you were locked into Wuhan.

Trolls. They have been around for a long time breaking and smashing things (and people). Except, they have traded in their clubs and axes for Sharpies that write in ones and zeroes.

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Devon Berry
Devon Berry

Written by Devon Berry

Devon Berry recently served as clinical associate professor and executive associate nursing dean at the Oregon Health and Science University School of Nursing.

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