Rare Words Novels & Stories

"The patient's leg bones show unexplained comminuted fractures, accompanied by an extremely rare acute fungal infection and extensive necrosis of the flesh. He must undergo immediate above-knee amputation of both legs. Otherwise, if the infection enters his internal organs through the bloodstream, not even the gods can save him. Please sign this as soon as possible." "Amputation?!" Mom's eyes rolled back, and she collapsed into Dad's arms. Violet stepped back in disbelief, her hands trembling. Just then, the lab doctor responsible for conducting Jackie's preoperative blood tests approached, looking at the report he was holding in confusion. "Are you the patient's family? When you brought him

I blink a few times. He stares at me for a moment, then he stretches his lips a bit. It looks like a smile, but not really. “You’re right, we have unique eyes. These are rare- very rare.” I think about what he said. Rare? I don’t know what it means. I am still learning words. I would like to know this word so I can tell Megan later. “Your grandparents maybe had eyes like that? Or maybe your mother because you don’t have your father’s.”

He read frowning at his words. “And what does that mean?” Matt was getting frustrated, not fond of riddles. “Im not too sure, I remember learning that ancient tribes called werewolves a curse of the moon, but shes not a werewolf so it must mean something else,” He said, scratching his head and squinting his eyes. Matt rubbed his face, trying to get his mind to come up with any logical answer but came up empty, he never listened when his father brought up werewolf history, he always found it boring and couldn't understand what his father found so interesting about it.

PRECIOUS I looked across everyone's faces, catching a glimpse of their confused faces before the word finally sank in. Wait. "Rare?" The single word rolled out of my tongue effortlessly. It seemed like snow which melted suddenly on the ground as everyone's mouth hung low, their lips slowly reciting the word. "Yes, Rare. Your name is Precious babe, and precious means something rare so I picked the two together and I came up with the name." He smiled, flashing his teeth at all of us.