P.L. Proctor

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“A Medical Meditation” by P.L. Proctor

Submitted to Contest #147

Penny lays in her hospital bed listening to the cacophony of beeps emanating from the machines monitoring her vitals. She wears medium wash jeans and a plain white t-shirt - both slightly too large despite only buying them in the last few weeks. She is cold, chilled to the bone. It doesn’t matter that she has on her navy blue, puffy winter coat or a knit black hat, or that the nurses gave her two blankets straight out of a warmer. The cold is coming from the inside, her bones are made of ice. Her heart rate beeps along at 51 bpm and her bloo...

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