SHORT STORY of WARD COURIER: "Medicated Goo"
From the story collection "A Ghosthunter's Journal" (1999) by Ward Courier under the pen name Mason Winfield
[And one day towards the end of the year, as Caridwen was culling plants and making incantations, it chanced that three drops of the charmed liquor flew out of the cauldron and fell upon the finger of Gwion Bach.
- Lady Charlotte Guest, the "Mabinogion"]
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From a vacant wheelchair - the only seat outside the nursing station - I worked on my laptop, waiting for my interview. The nurses and I ignored each other, but from time to time a big old man in pajamas and a sort of punitive desk - a combination of high-chair, stocks, and, seemingly, commode - entered my notice. Man and desk-thing edged an inch or two at a time down the hall, att
