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Organ - Chapter 8

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ORGAN Chapter Eight Cast in concrete slum the car park sat resting, the weather was still on the darker side, the clouds held the sunshine at bay and every murky ray threatened to dowse the pavement in rain. Oscar took the opportunity of brief freedom offered to him by Nurse Beverly to take a walk around the floor, under her supervision of course, Beverly lingered around keeping herself in eye shot of the patient who dreamt up ideas staring desperately out the window at the free world. Oscar took the chance to spot the exits, last time he made a break for it he found himself caught out by the confusing signage looking for an exit into the car park, with time at hand he was carving mental notes of the various roads in and out onto the fleshy wrinkled walls of his brain.  “Bev, how often does that bus pass through?” Oscar asked inquisitively. His tone was light enough and Beverly’s interest minimal enough to not leave this question with any suspicion. Beverly put down her tea on the ...
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Organ - Chapter 7

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ORGAN Chapter Seven That morning Oscar was given his breakfast by a nurse he did not recognise, which at this point was unusual for him, not that he knew every member of staff by name but now he could spot faces successfully from a distance. Naturally, Oscar did not have much to do while sitting prisoner in his new demoralising cell. Oscar could smell the nurse before he saw her, a perfume that smelt like his grandmother, it was floral but still somehow domestically musky, like the clothing section of a charity shop. Swinging his door open with force the nurse juggled with tray holding his breakfast and a polystyrene cup of tea that Oscar had begun requesting, it was something he could control at least while nothing else seemed within his power.  “Morning young man” the nurse said with pep as she made her way gingerly over to his bedside table and plonked down the tray with perhaps excessive carelessness.  “Morning” Oscar replied politely, “I haven’t seen you before, are you n...
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Organ - Chapter 6

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ORGAN Chapter Six Anxiety adorned her just as her nurses uniform clung to her narrow shoulders, it was nauseating and Katie was still unsure what to expect from today’s meeting with the board of the hospitals liability team, they would determine her professional future after what had happened with Oscar, the night he almost suffocated played carelessly in her dreams ever since and the vitriolic rage she felt that day from Mrs Rubens still stung her pride. Katie accepted the mistake she made in leaving the room that evening but still had hold of this lingering idea that she had heard a voice, the coffee break felt justifiable albeit unprofessional.  This was not the energy Katie wanted to bring into this meeting; this was going to be a board of old suits who held her future in this profession in their wrinkled entitled hands. Katie needed to do what she had always done to get by in this hospital, smile at the right people, shake the right hands and turn a blind eye to the obvious pi...
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