Chapters tagged doctor

by TerraKhanus

Chapter 4

I sat vigil by my mother’s hospital bed, perched on a plastic chair still sticky from its last unlucky occupant. The fluorescent lights in the ceiling buzzed and flickered with a persistence that set my teeth on edge, making the world feel both hyper-real and hollowed out, like a...

by TerraKhanus

Chapter 5

I sat by Mom’s bedside, the world outside the hospital window a high-gloss cartoon of summer clouds and distant traffic, as if nothing had changed. In here, everything was changed, right down to the molecules in the air. Mom was still out cold, or close to it. She lay curled on h...

by TerraKhanus

Chapter 6

Mom and I played cards in silence for an hour. The hospital tray table had a sticky cup ring and a packet of “sugar” that was really salt, and the deck of cards was the kind you got for free in the mail from a charity. But she kept shuffling and dealing, as if pretending this was...