She was touched to receive the exquisitely packaged chocolates.
Her next of kin discovered that crema was a hazelnut cream and not a vanilla cream. When the nuts touched her throat, it swelled from anaphylaxis shock.
This almost tweetable murder mystery is a Loose Bloggers Consortium post on the theme of “Touched”. And was not written in the local accident and emergency.
To find out that the others in the consortium think, check out, …
Delirious, Maria/Gaelikaa, Maria SilverFox OCD writer, Padmum, Paul, Ramana, The Old Fossil, Grannymar.
Tags: anaphylaxis, fiction, LBC, murder, nuts
December 25th, 2012 at 12:20 pm
Sounds quite weird Will. Peanuts are known to cause anaphylaxia but hazelnuts too? Your post has touched the curious in me.
December 25th, 2012 at 1:49 pm
Peanuts, tree nuts and milk can all cause it (in different people of course).
December 26th, 2012 at 1:50 am
“Myth busters” did a show about the old “icicle in the chest” murder, but I didn’t see their conclusion. I had always heard about how the murder weapon would melt, and there wouldn’t be a murder weapon. I think anaphylaxia would probably be an easier murder to get away with.
December 26th, 2012 at 7:24 am
Short and……Sweet!
December 26th, 2012 at 1:10 pm
Ohh, I wonder if I could use the LBC topics to piece together a coherent story, chapter by chapter in a topic by topic fashion? I see a challenge worth trying out in February.
January 2nd, 2013 at 8:34 pm
Consider yourself challenged!