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  1. Public Bookmark 20

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    29 Nov 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 72

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    Whitaker has never called out sick for any job he’s had. Not even at six years old with chicken pox, crying as he fed the chickens and Noah folded himself over the fence to tell him that he might as well try the feed too while he was at it since he was turning into a chicken himself. Not even his newspaper route at thirteen when the only things that held the jagged flesh of his thigh together were paper towels and an ace bandage. And none of the days leading into a full moon night where he feels like his skin is stretched too tight over his bones and any wrong move could split him apart at his seams and birth a monster onto the scuffed white floor of the ED.

    Sometimes hearing everything means you hear nothing at all. Between the beeping and whirring and murmuring and shouting and rolling and squeaking and slamming, Whitaker could have thought once an emergency department might be hell on earth. But all that noise around him means he can’t hear any of the noise within him, and that is in itself a blessing.

     

    [Or Whitaker's first full moon at the Pitt.]

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    28 Nov 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 33

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    The first one he chalks up to negligence, someone received the wrong instructions for a postmortem examination. An unfortunate mistake, but these things happen. The second one means someone is making this kind of mistake twice, which is already twice more than it should have happened, and whoever's teaching down there sure as hell should have caught the error and corrected it by now.

    The third one is what makes him sure this isn't an accident. Someone is stealing human remains in the hospital.

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    27 Nov 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 17

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    Dennis hates that he bends over backwards for his family, that he’s uprooted his life yet again for people who don’t have the decency to call him by his name. If his mother truly has vascular dementia, she may have some time to get her affairs in order, but it is a progressive disease. It’s unclear at what rate and how dramatically she will decline, but she will decline. Dennis just wants to be spared from bearing the news to the rest of his family.

    Dennis's mother has a stroke. As he deals with the complexities of his extended family in Broken Bow, his relationship with Robby shifts.

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    17 Nov 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 51

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    “Mel is, like, so … sweet and innocent,” someone said. It sounded a lot like Santos. “You don’t get to fuck up her life too. She doesn’t deserve that.”

    That word: innocent. Mel hated that word. Like she wasn’t twenty-eight years old. Like she wasn’t a fully grown adult.

    OR: Mel overhears Santos calling her “innocent” and immediately spirals.

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    17 Nov 2025