Series: She just slipped on the wet linoleum, Martha—don't make a scene in a public hospital.

The fallout from Judge Albright’s orders rippled quickly through Oakhaven. Marcus Gable, stripped of his notary seal and facing a county-wide review of his past [more…]

Six months crawled by. Julian was deep in his court-ordered residential program, cut off from his former life. Evelyn, after her initial fury, had left [more…]

Exactly one year after that terrifying day in the Oakhaven Memorial Hospital ER, I stood in the small, fluorescent-lit kitchen of my hospice clinic. The [more…]