Antihistamine Official

Leo took his pill and waited for the internal stalemate to begin.

Leo lived in a world that, for two months every year, tried to kill him with kindness. Or rather, with the yellowish-green dust of the pine trees that coated every car and sidewalk in the city. To the trees, it was life; to Leo’s immune system, it was a declaration of war.

Leo’s savior lived in a small, white plastic bottle on his nightstand: the Antihistamine.