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TiCK TiCK TiCK TiCK

by Pegi Deitz Shea

UPROARIOUS! Each piece bites into us, compelling us to continue exuberantly through scientific information and delightful laughter. This book will get under your skin, stick there, and stay until you are able to pull yourself away. And I’m a 4-time Lyme sufferer whose wife nearly died of anaplasmosis. An absolute must read! John L. Stanizzi, Author of SEE and Entra La Notte In TiCK TiCK TiCK TiCK, Pegi Deitz Shea uses humor as a strategy to link our sense of mortality to the understandable fear caused by the tiny time bomb a disease-bearing tick can be. Because laughter heals, even as it says, "Pay attention," these are healing poems. Margaret Gibson, State of Connecticut Poet Laureate, 2019-2022 Author of Draw Me Without Boundaries A 27-year sufferer of relapsing Lyme disease, award-winning author Pegi Deitz Shea let her inner Robin Williams loose on ticks and came up with a World Tick Pageant, a craft blood bar called “Bites & Sips,” “Tickle Dating Apps,” and more zany hybrid short works. If you’ve been “touched” by ticks, try laughing at them (after you take your meds).