clotted
raze
her
son
noticed
her
speech
was
slurred
when
she
got
home
from
grabbing
groceries
.
she
seemed disoriented.
her
husband
called
an
ambulance
.
the
attendants scoffed
when
they
saw
her
.
"
give
it
a
day
,"
they
said
. "
the
hospital's
full
.
you'll
be
waiting
there
for
six
hours
anyway
.
she
should
be
fine
."
her
husband
wasn't
taking
any
chances
.
he
brought
her
to
the
emergency
department.
there
was
a
woman
there
with
both
eyes
blackened
and
welded shut.
they
threw
her
out
the
door
.
screaming
.
blind
. bewildered.
another
woman's
skin
was
painted
colours
no
human
being
should
be
by
the
fists
of
a
beast
in
the
body
of
a
man
.
"
but
i
still
love
him
,"
he
heard
her
say
.
they
found
a
blood
clot
in
his
wife's
brain
.
another
day
and
she
would
have
been
dead
.
when
she
was
feeling
like
herself
again
,
she
told
her
husband
, "
you
better
go
to
work
."
so
he
sat
on
the
couch
.
and
he
turned
the
tv
on
and
let
it
tell
him
something
terrible
.
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what's it to you?
who
go
blather
from