31. The Masked Man

*Sort of long...*

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I rubbed my head as I lay on the icy, hard ground. A tender ache ran the length of my entire nervous system as if I’d just broken nearly every bone in my body. The chilly night air did little to resolve my pain as the freeze seemed to intensify the throbbing between my ears. Fog had started to roll in creating an even hazier view through my narrowly pierced eyelids. “What the heck was that?” I grumbled and slowly pulled myself from the dirt, feeling the ache in my lower back as I moved. “Hello? Is there anyone there?”

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30. The Nurse

Marie had just finished nursing school and started working at Mercy General. Although she really loved her job, she found it difficult getting along with some of the people she worked with. They were mostly young doctors and interns who, like her, just finished school and were doing their residencies at Mercy. The problem with most of them was that they enjoyed pranking one another and would often pull in other members of the staff as well.

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