Chapters tagged hospital

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 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...