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Cotton_Candy

• 178 reads

Rasemaphobia

Why am I sweating?

There’s honestly nothing to fear.... or so it seems.

I’m standing in the garage amid gasoline fumes, and I’m thoroughly stricken.

Get it together, I scold myself while shakily putting headphones on. The radio burps out Jimmy Buffet, but to no affect. “Margaritaville” isn’t very relaxing when one doesn’t have a margarita. I never got to try one - now, before I can, I’m going to die.

I wince. I’m not going to die. Not going to die. Nope.

These are the lies one tells oneself before disaster.

With bated breath, I approach the cursed machine and will myself to get on. Jimmy Buffet warbles encouragingly.

“Wasted awaaay again in Margaritaville...”

Thank you, Jimmy, I think solemnly. Unadulterated terror makes one ridiculously sentimental, doesn’t it? As Jimmy deflects the blame of his actions, I’m on the seat and turning the ignition. It rumbles to life with a wet cough and a shudder.

I did it!

Actually, I hadn’t. The machine was on - yet the entirety of the real task lie ahead.

Before the seratonin can wear off and reality hits me, I press the vroom vroom pedal (for lack of a better term) and scoot forward.

I recoil in horror.

Obviously, I knew that was going to happen. Doesn’t make our acceleration any less thrilling. After six more horrifying scoots and four more oldie’s goldies songs, I’m in the yard. Time to suck it up and drive.

Hate this, I hate this, hate hate hate this, I curse, bumbling along the grass. However, the longer I drive, the easier it becomes. The sun is bright and cheery, warming my skin. Colorful butterflies dance in the flowers. I even find myself singing along to the radio.

“Every move you make, every step you take… I’ll be watching-HOLY SHIITAKE MUSHROOMS!”

There it was. The final boss of this grassy hell.

The hill.

My foot eased off the vroom vroom pedal as the blood drained from my face. The fear returned tenfold. Seriously, I had to drive over that? I wiped the sweat from my brow and steadied my breathing – I can do this... It’s just one dinky, little, thirty foot, 90 degree hill…

So I tallied onward. Unknowingly, however, I had made a massive error. I drove sideways to the hill, rather than up-to-down. Thus it was that, as I bravely ventured through half-shut eyes, the machine started to tip.

It started to tip.

My worst nightmare.

I KNEW IT, I silently screamed, I’M GOING TO DIE LISTENING TO THAT STUPID CREEPY SONG AND NEVER DRINK A MARGARITA AND THIS WAS A MISTAKE AND WHY CAN’T MY BROTHER DO THIS INSTEAD OF ME AND ONLY THE BUTTERFLIES WILL BEAR WITNESS TO MY GRUESOME DEATH AND LORD PLEASE SPARE ME-

As we fell, I slipped from the driver’s seat – thus triggering the safety mechanism and cutting the engine. Panicked, I flung myself from the monster and inadvertently kicked it... just enough to rock it back to standing. Disaster adverted!

We stared each other down – the machine ruefully silent, myself trembling and swallowing my heartbeats.

Well… I’m done.

I dabbed my eyes, spat at my half-finished job, and stomped inside.

I’ve never mowed the lawn since.

Author’s Note:

So there’s the story of my stupid phobia XD

Bit of a rough piece, but very fun to write! :D

True story. Embellished a bit for comedy (yay), but believe me... rasemaphobia is a legit thing.

~Cotton Candy

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EstherFlowers1

• 48 reads

Glossophobia

The kind where you think you'll be fine right up till the second before heinously embarrassing yourself.

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taurusmoon

• 85 reads

Ataxophobia

makes it easy to be a minimalist.

makes it hard to live with me.

I guess it's not the worst thing I inherited from my mother.

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GaryEnglish

• 89 reads

Atelophobia versus Achievemephobi

I know you think

I’m cheating here.

Everybody always does.

It simply adds to my great fear

And that is good because

I guess

I’m at my happiest

When I eschew success

But failure breaks my heart in two.

That’s why I’m such a mess.

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fabulous

• 45 reads

Anablephobia

It's just a mild case, perhaps not even diagnosable,

but I hated moving from the city to the country

because, without skyscrapers to ground me,

I thought I might fall off the face of the planet.

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WellOKThen

• 56 reads

Allodoxaphobia

Lips sealed shut

Words ripping at my throat

You continue to spout nonsense

You jabber like a baboon

A screeching feral beast

But the words won't come

Like tasting blood

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VictoriaSobo

• 69 reads

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

I try so very hard to avoid the situations that bring forth our encounters.

I’m so scared of getting it wrong.

To look like a fool when I try to merely express myself.

But I can’t simply ignore them.

At times they are needed.

Other times I feel it verging on... Floccinaucinihilipification...

I check and re-check, over and over and over.

I can’t get it wrong.

Lest I be thought of as dumb.

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TrashyMaggie

• 43 reads

Bathmophobia

The fear of climbing up stairs and hills. And yes it is a real phobia.

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DragonChild

• 105 reads

Sedatephobia

My fear is something you can't really escape. It's always around you, it's always present one way or another. At night. During tests. Especially when you're alone. A quiet lull is alright with me, but this is too much to bear because it invades my mind and my thoughts, because there's nothing left for me to focus on.

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JaneJane

• 37 reads

Trumania

Or slight Truman Show Delusion. Not a phobia. I just get paranoid if I think something in my head about someone and then that someone makes ANY kind of movement that I might think would be a reaction, even though they can't hear my thoughts.

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