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The inaugural print edition of Hospital Drive is now available! This edition features an interview with our founder, Dr. Danny Becker; our prose and poetry contest winners; and an anthology of the best work we'...
by Linda Chase
He was Henry Hudson, navigating the mighty river, heading north. He loved this river. His river. The sheer power of it, the expanse. The night was coal black. A thick darkness cloaked the bank...
by Michael Harty
They straggle across two rows
of handicapped spaces, tugging their young
toward the wide pneumatic doors,
adjusting their faces. Smile, Trevor,
Grandpa wants to see you smile.
They ...
by Laura Foley
Film Noir
In Paris with my professor,
and his shy teenage son,
not much younger than I,
whose presence I try
to fence from my awareness.
Our apartment’s an atelier,
our courtyard shad...
by Monica Wendel
Here’s the dream:
that I’ve made the right choice. That everyone forgives me for everything.
That we can sleep at night. That the dog I’m dog sitting never barks or snaps at me but ins...
by Beverly Magovern Lyon
Would it have made a difference if I had arrived in a later season,
say, spring 1945 or fall of ‘53?
Would my mother have learned to float by then, confident and tan?
Suppose my...
by Cecily Markham
I walk into the room to check on her, to see if the pain medication helped. I am a young nurse. My patient is lying in the bed by the window. The room is honey-like from the sun pouring in....
by Larry Pike
I have been in this room before,
one like it, one of a thousand, a million—
past the gift shop, the snack bar, x-ray, PT,
round and around the maze of wings,
2 East, 3 West, halfway down a ...
by Larry Pike
Of course it’s precautionary, probably
will be discontinued once the echo
results are back, but being handed
the nitro scrip jolts the pulse,
stimulates sharp, darting pains,
which would s...