Jenny Stain's courtship with the colour blue had begun early.
Triggered by an inconceivably rare reaction to a bluebottle jellyfish sting at age six, now, nearly two decades on, her colour immersion infatuation was near complete. Hair, skin, even tongue – all dyed blue. Converting her body's own waste products to pale azure with a daily oral dose of food colouring tablets had perfectly consummated the affair.
Yet love and devotion can be unfairly blind. One too many dye pills had brought on a sudden, and in Jenny's case, tragic condition – permanent colour blindness.
Out of the blue, love had soured.
Author bio: Glen Donaldson is a Brisbane schoolteacher who embraces the ridiculous when he thinks no one is looking. He holds firmly to the view he is not cynical, just experienced.
Dyed is part of 101 Fiction issue 5.
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