Fatal Light by Richard Currey

Author:Richard Currey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Santa Fe Writer's Project
Published: 2012-03-06T05:00:00+00:00

Two doctors at my bedside. The light around them haloed, burned, shimmered. They wore olive-drab combat utilities under their white coats and one said, talking too loud, How’s it going, guy? My mouth moved but I had to try a second time to speak before the words came, and I asked: Malaria?

The doctors laughed as if I said something funny. Well, said the one that talked too loud, that’s no surprise, is it?

The other one said, We’re trying to keep that fever under control. You’ve been out of it here.

I said, I’ve been remembering...stuff from...before. This girl I met. Strange.

The doctors nodded knowingly at each other. The one who wanted to keep my fever under control was writing on my chart, and said, Malaria’ll do that to you. Funny how we always think of women.

The other doctor grinned and said, Condition of war.

The two of them stood beside the bed, faces discolored in the sear of light, hallucinated, phantasmagorical. The one with my chart clapped it closed and said, We’re coming right along here. We’ll have you back in action in no time.

The one who talked too loud gripped my ankle through the bedsheet. You’ll be fine, he said. Just give it a few more days.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.