JOHN-J ANDERSON

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...

ORGAN Chapter Five It was not long after Oscars failed escape attempt, foiled by the omniscient Doctor Boothe, that he was informed on his pending relocation to a new room in a more “practical” ward of the hospital in Greenwood Heart. No doubt in his agitated fracturing mind that this was a precaution to keep him under more eyes now, that he had been inevitably labelled as a flight risk, even worse was the idea that Boothe could spin this as confirmation of Oscars depleting mental cognition. He was told to gather up his things, minus his backpack which still remained in the possession of Boothe along with his phone, or so Oscar assumed, and wait for someone to come later this evening to collect him. Right on time, the hospital staff seemed regimented with military authority since his escape, a nurse came plodding into the room and instructed Oscar that it was time to move to his new room across the facility. Oscar had a momentary thought of arguing but after his episode before that led...