The Fever by Diane Hoh

Author:Diane Hoh
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Horror tales
ISBN: 9780590454018
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 1992-10-14T18:30:00+00:00

room, of course. There was no sign of forced entry."

She tried to sit up in bed and call her father, but she toppled sideways immediately. She was floating in a sea of clouds. It was not an unpleasant sensation.

*We want to see her," her mother's voice said.

"I'm sorry," Dr. Morgan answered from his faraway place, "but Fd rather you didn't. I gave her a sedative. Let her sleep. She's had a rough time of it. Since tomorrow is a holiday, we've added morning visiting hours. You can see Duffy then."

What? No visiting hours tonight? Well, that certainly wasn't fair. Not the least bit. It wasn't her fault she'd had a rough time of it. Why were they punishing her by stealing her visiting hours?

And then her head fell back on the pillow, her eyes shut, and she disappeared into a thick, drugged sleep.

When she awoke sometime later, her room was still shrouded in darkness broken only by the faint glow of the small night-light by her door. She hated the darkness. She would never feel safe in the dark again.

Her head pounded, her stomach rode a carousel. But she was no longer lost in that drug-induced twilight zone.

The entire fourth floor was shrouded in silence. There were no quiet, rubber-soled footsteps out in the hall, no clattering of gumey wheels, no hushed conversation between nurses and orderlies, no clanking of metal rings on curtain slides. The hospital was as still and silent as . . . death.

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