Little Skulls
By Dan Morey
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Eight old men are dying behind a curtain in Brendan’s hospital ward. What they’re dying of I can’t say. But they’re dying. You can smell it. Sometimes I go over and talk to them, but they never say anything back. I go anyway, because I can’t just sit here and stare at Brendan all day. It’s too boring.
Right now I’m on Brendan’s side of the curtain. Like the song that says whose suicide are you on? I’m on Brendan’s. And he is a suicide. Well, almost a suicide. The doctor told us he took a very bad beating and drank a lot of Drano and that he’s going to be comatose for a while. He doesn’t know if Brendan got beat up and then drank the Drano, or if he drank the Drano and then got beat up. …
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