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General Hospital - Sort of

“Dr Thx, dial 973 stat. Dr. Thx, 973 stat,” the overhead speaker blared.

At the nurses station, she picked up
the phone on the first ring. “Nurse Ept speaking.”

“This is Dr. Thx, I was paged.”

“Yes, doctor. Your patient, Mr. Katastrofee in room 637 is unresponsive. His vital signs, CBC
and CMP are all normal but…” Here
she paused to catch her breath and steel herself for his reaction… “His word count is over 400,000” she finally blurted.

“Damn it, nurse, when and how did he get access to publishing materials in this hospital?”

“I don’t know, doctor. He was fine this morning. He did have some visitors this afternoon but…”
she trailed off miserably.

“Alright, give him 1 mg of Antifan IV now and start an Illiterate drip at 8 mg per hour. I’ll be up to see him
soon.”

Back in the patients room, Mr. K’s blood-shot eyes still bulged, saliva trickled from the corner of his mouth as he mumbled unintelligibly and his fingers twitched as if typing on an invisible keyboard.

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General Hospital - Sort of
THX 0477
Posted 7 months ago

Took me a minute to see where you were going, and then, oh, the laughter. I think my favorite was the ‘illiterate drip at 8 mg/hr’. Very funny sequel, still in the same vein but a nice creative leap away too. I tip my hat to you.
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flute faerie
Posted 7 months ago

This was very creative. I absolutely adored it.
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.:band baby:.
Posted 7 months ago

So cute, I like how you took it in a different direction and made an actually story of it, with almost fictional characters. ((Did that make sense??))
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Alexa ♥
Posted 7 months ago

I loved His word count is over 400,000.
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Truly inspired writing.
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Lone Writer
Posted 7 months ago

Can I laugh any harder?
I think not!
That’s awesome!
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Jenunique
Posted 7 months ago

This is absolutely hilarious. I am never going to get anything done today. I cannot get out of my chair. So unfair being addicted to ficlets. Ah well, such is the life.
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Storykeeper of Fae
Posted 7 months ago

HILARIOUS ! That’s among the funniest ficlets every. Illiterale drip…and then the image of him twitching in a hospital bed! Ha!
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