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Confidentiality
Busy medical clinic. Patient-chart filing cabinet stuffed. More charts waiting to be shelved, by me. Where to?
It’s the Computer Age. The weight of paper is seriously impacting office health.
I walk by my desk, accidentally knocking down the records I’m to file.
Uncle Frederic is a patient here. He hasn’t told me why.
Footsteps?
Have to gather the wayward folders and pile them neatly onto the desk. The night patrol nods, passing by my opened doorway.
Tomorrow’s a new workday. Perhaps I can linger again after office hours and find out why uncle visits this clinic once a week.
From Guest Contributor Krystyna Fedosejevs
I Can't Explain
I know things look bad. I can explain the blood. I was playing with my dog and he scratched me pretty bad. He can be rough.
What about the witness who saw you going into the house?
I was just dropping off the divorce papers. They should be in the filing cabinet.
I see. And the threatening emails from your account?
Someone's trying to frame me.
Very good. That just leaves the matter of the security camera. How do you explain that someone who looks remarkably like you was recorded beating your ex to death with a field hockey stick?
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