Laura Smith

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“New York Minute” by Laura Smith

Submitted to Contest #234

New York Minute Laura Smith The clock read 11:50 PM. Ten minutes left in the day. Ten minutes until a new day started. The unit lights were dimmed for rest, sporadically interrupted by the glow of computer monitors at the desk and on the mobile workstations in the hallway. The dayshift chorus of ringing phones, visitors, doctors, gurneys rolling down the hall, and visits from ancillary services replaced by more hushed tones, the rhythmic beeping of heart monitors, the occasional bed alarm when some unsteady patient attempted to make...

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