Amanda and The Photoshoot – 08
***********ion. A woman named Jade flies in specifically to shoot with her. Amanda signs at the same diagonal and descends the stairs in royal blue platforms. Morning arrived with the particular quality of a day on the wrong side of a supply that had run out. She ate dry toast and drank water and sat with the symptoms beginning their return sequence. Mild at first. Sweating at the temples and along the spine. The muscle ache starting in the lower back and radiating upward through the thoracic vertebrae in the specific pattern she had read about and was now experiencing from the inside for the fourth time. She knew the timeline precisely. She knew exactly what the next six hours would produce and she could not stop any of it. By mid-afternoon the chills arrived …