People Laughed At An Elderly Woman In A Hospital Waiting Room Until A Doctor Asked One Question

only a kind of resigned neutrality. A television mounted high on the wall cycled through a news program that nobody was watching. The radiator near the window knocked twice every few minutes with a reliability that had become, over the course of the afternoon, a kind of ambient clock.

She had been there since just past one.

The woman in the corner was continue reading …