Short Story - The Emergency Room

Nancy Kerrigan flashed her ivories as she floated and spun crosswise the television screen. She stepped to the b finish of the cardiogram and the morphine drip; she glided to the eternal rhythm of the ventilators rising and travel in the rooms below. beholding her in the corner of the harm ICU surprised me at first. She looked out of place, muted and piffling, transmitted from her ice palace to an noncitizen world of comas and catheters. I view Nancy served some purpose there, whirl amidst sterile slam tiles and fluorescent lights. Whether she facilitated entertainment or escapism I cant say, merely are they really diametric?\nThis particular day, I enjoin my gawking eyes and hesitant travel to a glassed-in cubicle littered with machines. The main doors of the unit pixilated behind us with a heavy lub-dup; there was no escape. To our left, gunshot victims groaned audibly with murkily lit rooms. Gang fight, mom explained as we paced rhythmically along the corridor p ast somber, faceless nurses and sterile white counters. Her typical crease khakis swung loosely too loosely- from her hips. Had she remembered to eat that day? Had I? My swampy grey sweatshirt hung like a hollow shell on my gangly 13-year-old body, only the nipping emptiness felt pure, reassuring. It echoed my tie down with my mom and even that sober hallway. Together we formed a frozen, rawboned audience in anticipation of the evenings main event. Nancy still smiled and twirled to a higher place it all, silently commanding attention, but she was really just a sideshow. Mom drew diversion a people of colourless curtain to reveal the real intention of our visit.\nThe body, intubated and impotent, materialized as sallow bits of color against pristine white sheets. The tiny purplish toes of one metrical unit peeked from the closure of a big cast. At the other end of the bleached expanse, a grungy tube emerged and disappeared again between thin lips. One nisus ran yell ow, the others clear, and a curious desegregate of urine, and disinfectant ...