Escape from the Cancer Ward

Abstract

I slipped out of the stairwell, crept across the corridor, and past the abandoned nurses’ station and the broken elevator door that opened and closed like a mechanical mouth, mutely chewing the iodine-soaked air. I ran across the hall and into my brother’s hospital room. Joe looked up wearily from his bed, probably thinking it was another intrusion from the technicians who constantly took samples of his blood.