SciFi/Fantasy – March 30

“There is such a thing as anaesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne.”
– Jack London

On this date in 1842, Crawford Long was the first doctor to use anesthetic in surgery.

Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist suffers through the original, painful version of a relatively common experience in the world you’ve created that used to be excruciatingly unpleasant but is now routinely pain-free.

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