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Weekly Contest #324
1200 miles from Papeete, one of the students woke me in the dark. “Sorry,” she said. The red hallway light lit her face enough for me to recognize her - Kailey, a junior from Colorado College. “They need you on deck.” She withdrew without waking the rest of the cabin. I listened - no alarms, no running feet. The ship felt stable. Something medical, then. I put on a shirt and got up. Bunk curtains swayed as the ship took the swell. Nora had left a book on the floor and it slid back and forth as the ship moved - You Dreamed of Empires, by Alva...
Weekly Contest #289
The room is unfamiliar. I don’t know how I got here. The day started ok. I wasn’t even late. It was my last day on service, last day before vacation, and it should have ended gently. The admission pager went off at 0632, exactly two minutes after I had taken over from the night team, and that should have been my warning. The night resident Allison, always a team player, offered to take it, but I waved her off. That was our culture - she had to offer, and I had to refuse the offer. I went down to the Emergency Department to meet the patient. ...
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