Sarah Newton

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Mar, 2020

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“Heartburn, Insomnia, and the Byword for Recklessness” by Sarah Newton

Submitted to Contest #70

Dr Adam Able liked to think that, had his house-cum-hospital possessed a working EKG machine, then Nicolas Pfeiffer may have still been alive. The generous part of him acknowledged that, even if he did have access to the gold standard diagnostic tool for detecting myocardial infarctions, he wouldn’t have had the ability to provide definitive management of such pathology. After all, thanks to the post-apocalyptic world he now lived in, cardiac catheterization labs were as hard to find as the trained interventional cardiologists needed to...

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“Blackberries, Pillows, and the Problem with Unions” by Sarah Newton

Submitted to Contest #60

A lot had changed in the half-decade since the inevitable zombie virus swept through and decimated the world’s population, any semblance of centralized government, law and order, and decent television. However, after the metaphorical dust had settled, some still found themselves adhering to a daily routine that hadn’t changed much from their pre-apocalyptic ones. For Dr Adam Able, his day still started at a time that even the Cain Township’s resident rooster found irritatingly early. This early hour of awakening was due to one part...

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