Avelrow Publishing
by Fiadh Callister
The first thing Dr. Nessa Byrne noticed about a bad night was never the screaming. People imagined the screaming. They imagined sirens coming in hot, blood on white floors, doctors running with heroic urgency and someone shouting for a crash trolley while the music swelled. That was television. In Mercy South Hospital, on the north side of Cork city in the third week of January, bad nights usually announced themselves with quieter things.
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The first thing Dr. Nessa Byrne noticed about a bad night was never the screaming. People imagined the screaming. They imagined sirens coming in hot, blood on white floors, doctors running with heroic urgency and someone shouting for a crash trolley while the music swelled. That was television. In Mercy South Hospital, on the north side of Cork city in the third week of January, bad nights usually announced themselves with quieter things.
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