Chapter 1: The Butcher’s Block
An astringent miasma of iodine and bleach waged war against the cloying, metallic reek of my own hemorrhaging, driving a spike of sheer nausea deep behind my eyes. Above my head, the unforgiving, blinding incandescence of the surgical theater lamps beat down, reducing the periphery of my consciousness to a trembling, shadow-soaked continue reading …