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A collection of 186 issues
Sminker
A patient both smokes tobacco and drinks alcohol. Submitted by Dan Patterson.
Quietroar
The unexpectedly loud sound of your own heartbeat in a silent room, months after the monitors stopped.
Bathrim
Hopedrawer
The kitchen drawer where every half-finished bottle of supplements from a bad month quietly goes to retire.
Gladlag
The delay between everyone else's relief that you survived and the moment your own relief finally catches up.
Veilmurmur
The soft, hesitant voice of a patient asking if they're going to die.
Toastshift
The comforting waft of buttery toast drifting through a corridor.
Storyhold
Keeping a patient's life story in your head so you can tell it for them when they no longer can.
Stickscape
The miniature hell of adhesive that refuses to peel the way you want.