Second Chances
Medical Drama · fiction

The Rules Beneath the Cast

The smell reached me before the stretcher did. It moved through the emergency department like an invisible warning—sickly sweet, metallic, and unmistakably rotten. Two nurses at the central station stopped talking. A respiratory therapist pulled down her mask, frowned, then quickly covered her nose again. I...

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Genre
Medical Drama
Audience
Adult readers
Chapters
5
Fiction status
fiction
Editorial responsibility
My Life Story Editorial

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  1. 01Chapter 1
  2. 02Chapter 2
  3. 03Chapter 3
  4. 04Chapter 4
  5. 05Chapter 5

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