A LIFE COME TRUE
© Farouk Asvat
The doctor gave
one look at him and pronounced him dead.
His gums looked like bled tuna fish; he was gasping, smelling of dried
apricot, a child's rattle playing in his throat. He was no god, no worker of miracles, but
looking at him, he shoved a needle into his vein, setting up the plumbing
system: normal saline in one arm, fresh dried plasma in the other. He ordered oxygen and suction from a nursing
staff that had seen so many deaths, another one wouldn't matter, young that the
patient was. He took blood samples,
ordered "very urgent uncrossmatched blood" (which he knew would take
hours coming from the white hospital on the other side of the city), put him in
a MAST suit, called the surgeons, and phoned theatre to be ready for an op. …
continued …
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acknowledgements:
● A Life Come True is published in:
This Masquerade (kindle, 2019);
This Masquerade (amazon paperback, p99, 2019).
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[§] Books by Farouk
Asvat:
● Sadness In The House Of Love (novel)
● The Gathering Of The Storm (novel)
● I Dream In Long Sentences (poetry)
● The Wind Still Sings Sad
Songs
(poetry)
● A Celebration Of Flames (poetry)
● The Time Of Our Lives (poetry)
● This Masquerade (short stories)
● Bra Frooks … (poetry)*
● The Paanies Are Coming (short stories)*
● In The House Of Love (novel)*
● Weapons Of Words (comparative
literature & literary criticism)
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biography: https://faroukasvat-bio.blogspot.com
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Love by Farouk
Asvat
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