Intensive Care

by Todd Mercer

It’s a sympathetic quality. And also the hospital’s humming core of activity. It’s where twin ambulances deliver a Probable Shooter and Victim Number One. Too soon to call the outcome or the repercussions. At Mercy the innocent and the malignant alike get the surgeon’s conscientious effort. In Mercy’s hallway outside Post-Op, one mother accuses, a second pushes back, but using their eyes, both silent.

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Todd Mercer's short collection Ingenue was published by Celery City Press. Recent work appears in Fictive Dream, Friday Flash Fiction and One Sentence Poems.