The Jell-O Incident
By Eva Suluk
Carl wanders from his hospital room to the atrium, where he meets Sam. Amidst the sterile environment and autumn gloom outside, they bond over fear, boredom, and a strange game involving hospital food.
Medical Drama Short Stories
4 Stories
A Fine Line in Autumn's Chill
By Eva Suluk
The emergency room pulsed, a living organism of beeping monitors, hushed directives, and the pervasive scent of antiseptic. Outside, an incessant autumn rain lashed against the windows, a grey curtain mirroring the exhaustion in Dr. Robin Callaghan's eyes. Another Friday night, another deluge of human fragility, and the city's wet, cold breath seemed to seep through the hospital's very walls.
A Certain Shade of Crimson
By Jamie F. Bell
The city simmered, a vast, indifferent beast humming beneath a relentless summer sky. Air conditioning units rattled their metallic song from every window, a mechanical chorus against the chirp of unseen cicadas. Inside, the cool, artificial quiet of the university halls offered little respite from the oppressive heat, yet it carried its own brand of suffocating calm. Kim, a flicker of northern ice still in his gaze, navigated this unfamiliar landscape of concrete and quiet desperation, his mind a tangle of homesickness and nascent unease.
Skeletal
By Jamie F. Bell
The clinic, a solitary beacon against the unforgiving northern winter, shudders under the onslaught of a blizzard. Inside, makeshift emergency lights cast long, nervous shadows as an unexpected, frantic pounding on the door shatters the fragile peace, heralding the arrival of an unknown affliction from the frozen wilderness.