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Ken Stir
“Are you coming tonight?” A voice from across the room yelled. “Mikey, are you coming tonight?”Mike Morgan looked up from his station and saw a man, Ken Stir, wearing green surgical scrubs. Mike slunk down on his vinyl covered chair as Ken waved to him. Ignoring Mike’s attempt to go stealth, Ken navigated the busy room of the patients receiving their doses. Ken Stir, with his endearing smile, was a familiar face to the cancer treatment room. Ken sat at an empty seat next to Mike. The treatment room smelled of bleach, burning electronics from overused medical devices, sterile gauze, fear and ...
Three Views of Life and Death
Carol stepped out of her mom’s bedroom speaking in a low tone into her cell phone. She was in shear frustration when she got her brother’s voice mail. “Jan, I think mom is slipping away. She’s barely breathing. Please get here as fast as you can! The hospice lady is on her break and Connie won’t be here for another hour. I don’t know what to do!”Feeling all alone, not equipped to handle her mother’s death all by herself, her family’s circumstances kept playing in her mind. In a few days she was turning twenty-one, her sister was graduating from college, and Jan’s wife was giving birth. Her mo...
The Visit
- Are you coming tonight? – Asked Tracy. Ciara looked at her friend and simply shrugged it off and gave her the cold shoulder. - C’mon Ciara, when was the last time we went out? – She insisted. Today wasn’t a common day for the young Ciara, today was the first anniversary of her father’s death, something that her best friend, Tracy, had failed to remember. The two of them entered the dorm that they shared at university. Ciara went first as Tracy swiftly followed her, closing the white door behind her. - I’ve already spoken with Clair...
Parachute
We have plenty of time, I tell my car in my head as I leave my house, we'll get there. I approach it with my keys in my hand, I feel my tie a little too tight around my neck - coffee will do that to you. My neighbour, Alan, looks at me from across the road with a far too cheerful smile. I mean, it's not his fault, he has no idea where I'm off to. I www.onedoor.ccwon't ruin his mood.‘Where’re you off to?’ He asks me as he washes his Reliant Robin.‘Just off to see someone,’ I respond, ‘and I’ll probably get there a lot faster than you would in my normal car.’Look, I do like Alan, don’t get me wrong, he’s a go...