Nicholas Gallo, MD UW Hospital, Internal Medicine Short story No one told John he was dying. Before I met John, he had already survived lung cancer twice. He was first diagnosed after a lesion was identified on a screening CT scan. This was treated with partial resection of his right lung. Rehab was challenging,…
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Midnight Meal
Hannah Cress School of Medicine and Public Health 2024 Short Story My husband stops outside the building situated adjacent to the private runway on the back side of the county airport, I give him a swift kiss and duck out of the car into the night, the sky foggy and spitting a mist. “Have…
Grief’s Ghost
Edith-Marie Green School of Medicine and Public Health, Population Health Sciences 2023 Short story The Charlotte Wymond Memorial Library closes, on most nights, promptly at eight. Any students still browsing the stacks are ushered out, the random senior napping on the couch woken up, last check-outs completed, and research paused for as long as…
The Chef’s Lament
David van den Brandt School of Nursing 2023 Short story Turning to the right, turning to the left, over to his back, onto his chest, he could not find a comfortable position because it was one of those nights when the crickets were not soothing, the stars were too bright, the moon too ominous,…
The Siren
Ariel Niforatos School of Medicine and Public Health 2021 Short story She walks in endless fields of sorrow in a world she cannot name and through streets that end without destinations. She dances through lonely alleys and backstreets with only the wind pushing her forward and blowing through her hair with an illusion of…
In Sickness and In Health
Madison Kranz School of Nursing 2021 Prose/flash fiction He gently places the dish towel over the broken glass, trying not to cut himself. He knows the small fragments will scratch their new table, but that’s the last thing on his mind. She sits on a stool at the breakfast bar, knees pulled to her…
Saturday Morning in New Orleans
Farah Kaiksow School of Medicine and Public Health 2020 Short story I was sleeping in that Saturday morning. It might have been because I had worked the night before, but it might just as easily have been because I am not a morning person. So it was sometime around mid-morning that I felt my…
Rutmari
Fátima Sancheznieto, PhD School of Medicine and Public Health, Institute for Clinical and Translational Research 2020 Short story The author would like readers to note that this piece contains scenes of homophobia and racism as part of its social commentary. The room didn’t smell like death. It smelled sterile, an attempt to mask death’s…