This is Your Blood Pressure Speaking, by Mark Tulin – Friday Flash Fiction

This is Your Blood Pressure Speaking, by Mark Tulin
20/11/2020

Systolic: Hello, George? Please, listen. Cut out all the food that isn’t heart-healthy and start exercising.

Diastolic: Systolic’s right, George. He’s the top gun around here. He knows when your artery walls and ventricles are taking a beating.

Systolic: Instead of pizza and fried chicken, eat more fruits and veggies. Your body’s not a trash receptacle.

Diastolic: If you don’t stop, George, the mercury will rise in the BP cuff so high that your head will explode. It’s bright red already.

George ignored Systolic and Diastolic, but he couldn’t ignore his pulse rate when he dropped to the floor.

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