In your latest story I read “1984” instead of “1894” and was extra creeped out by the pharmacists use of words. I wasn’t alive in the eighties so was already trying to wrap my head around it, thinking the vocabulary was odd and the choice of medicine a bit old fashioned, but my brain went: “bedtime story probably is a better judge of 1984 than I am, just go with it”
Please note: “just go with it” is a commendable motto for good girls everywhere.