In Over Her Head by Elsie Russell - Parnasse.com

But Penny had her own situation. A funny taste rose in the back
of her mouth, like ether, or acetone.
"What's wrong?" Sandro's sat down on the floor next to Penny,
his eyes searching hers.
His face swirled, bright bright Van Gogh yellow, his hair a
violet halo. The halo stretched out from the yellow swirls and up she
floated, right through him, inside a purple haze and there they were way
down there, with her hovering next to the flickering filament of the
ancient bulb, ceiling cobwebs shivering from the rising heat of the
room.
Sandro holding her wet scalp peering into her eyes, Ula still
holding the bottle she had poured over Penny's head.
"What happened?"
"When did you eat last? What did you eat?" His tone was flat,
like a doctor.
"When you did, at breakfast."
"You passed out, your eyes went to the back of your head."
"I did not pass out."
"Scusi?" He looked at her as if she was insane.
"Leave her alone, Sandro. It's that music."
"What?"
"Bats in the belfry." She mouthed the letters 'E L F' and put her
hands over her ears rolling her eyes around.
"O Dio, what are we going to do?" He wiped her wet face with
his towel.
"I don't get it. Its not supposed to be happening!" Penny said.
"What is happening?"
"Hold on, let me think. Well, I got this funny taste in the back
of my mouth, I saw swirling, bright colors, then I went up like a
balloon and bobbed up around the ceiling in this, like, violet haze, and
everything got really detailed but I saw myself lying down here, you,
everything, from up there. And I'm really up there, because I can see
things I could never see from the ground, like the filaments of that
weird Edison bulb. Then I don't know, I guess I went blank."
"Your eyes, there was only the white."
Ula sawed silently at her neck with the towel.
"I'm so sorry," he said, wrapping his arms around her.
"It's not the end of the world. I saw your aura. I flew right
through you. I bet acid's like this. I dunno." Had she been lying to
herself all this time? It had happened before, but she always dismissed it
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