FICTION

Paralyzed With Fear

Just another day at work

Photo by Diana Polekhina on Unsplash

Bala wiped his brow as he stood up. “I think it’s pretty sorted now,” he said to Tom, who was sitting shell-shocked next to the anesthetic machine.

Earlier, Bala had walked into a cacophony of alarms as Tom frantically tried to resuscitate the patient he was anesthetizing. Together the two of them managed to hold the patient…