Trauma Town Dispatch

If it was a full moon and everyone was having head traumas from falling off ladders, or their trach tubes were falling out from trying to eat pizza while semi-conscious, Emergency Dispatch often ran out of ambulances.

That means if you're having a heart attack on a snowy Saturday night when everyone else is fracturing their hips at the ski slope, you're going to need to learn how to pray.

Sabine's life as a Manhattan ex-pat living in Trummel, New York, pining after the disembodied male voice on the police scanner, could, she knew, be a fulfilling part of something important. She just had to figure out what that something was. In her job as the hospital's dispatcher and switchboard operator, she hoped to amass enough Intel to clarify her life's path.

Juliet, Sabine's neighbor at the condo, had a husband. Although he was dead, Juliet never lost touch with him. One day Juliet forgot to do Happy Hour, and entered the Trummel Hospital emergency room on a stretcher.

Sabine had been shaped early on by:

• Dr. Kildare
• and more recently by Dr. Who.

Juliet had been shaped early on by:

• Max Planck talking to her through a Ouija Board affirming the non-existence of linear time.

Sabine was searching for her life's meaning and her cats' safety. Juliet was searching for a sense of family and an apartment in Manhattan.

Here was the thing. Juliet's husband knew a guy. The guy's hospital ID badge was always backwards so no one knew who he actually was. But because Juliet had this connection, she and Sabine were alerted to the existence of a dark web file that was hidden in the hospital's Human Resources Department's Z-drive. It contained insights into both women's search for home.

Sabine was able to obtain these files, but they were encrypted. Juliet's "in" with the Afterlife gave them what they needed.

Author: Suzann Kale
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 07/13/2019
Pages: 302
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9781079575033

Review Citation(s):
PW Booklife Reviews 04/27/2020

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