‘RACING HEARTS’
A medical horror
We call it the Airing Cupboard: the South Auckland chapel where I counsel former doctors suspended for breaking down on the job.
You see, I'm a screw-up just like them. I'm on probation from the hospital’s Review Board and I don't know if I'll ever be allowed to walk the wards as an anaesthesiologist again.
It’s because I raced too hard and I fell. Fell in love with a doctor as competitive as me. And we both fell in love with danger – until one of us fell in too deep....
Story 9/10 from the collection BLOODALCOHOL: TEN TALES (Next Chapter 2023)
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9. Racing Hearts - body horror - read by the author Michael Botur