gazette- an official journal, shawn sais "what happens next is hard to put in word without sounding like a moronic advertisement for the granola new age spirit world gazette"


grand-mal seizures- severe epilepsy characterized by seizures which are initially tonic and then become clonic and by loss of consciousness, when shawn has seizures he can make it to were it just controlls his brain



pulitzer- any of various annual prizes (as for outstanding literary or journalistic achievement), shawns father is an award winning poet



fortnight- a period of 14 days : two weeks, shawns dad said this word in one of his poems



autonomic- acting or occurring involuntarily, one of shawns doctors told shawns mom that the reaction is just an autonamic, uncontrollable systemic reflex.