Beyond the blue Curtain

Heartless

To kick off the series on hospital cardiac wards and the unusual people who inhabit them, there is Wei Li. He is a dentist with a mechanical heart on the donor list for a transplant. But does he ever get one?

Gathering Stories

As author, my interest is in the possibilities that exist in moments, the pieces that are not filled in, the fragments left untold. At times I only heard the voices behind the blue curtain from my hospital bed while at other times, the patients who shared a room with me, became acquaintances, sometimes even friends.

When the Music Stopped

A fifteen Year old has a bedfellow who changes her experience in the hospital and changes her life.

A Vanishing Act

Martha Empimont lives a quiet solitary routined life. Sadly her heart is broken and she goes to the hospital.

Plane and Crane Crashes

During my hospital stay I realised that sometimes, the people who love us, and the specialists who care for us, don't ask us the questions that matter. And sometimes, when we try and tell them, they don't hear our explanations.
Zack and his bedfellow in the hospital are examples of that 'not knowing, not understanding, not being heard. This teenage boy is far more than a list of symtoms.

Spare Parts

I thought about what we can now do medically to alter our appearnce or alter what we are.  In Spare Parts two people try to do just that with interesting results.

The Other

The power of the heart to connect us to others in ways science can't yet understand.

Waiting

With no visitors allowed during COVID, we spent most of our time in hospital waiting. That's what Jacque is doing and has been doing most of his life.

The Game

Sometimes the strangest things happen in the ward of broken hearts. People 
lose and find one another.

Broken Heart Syndrome

Alister lives small but dreams big. He goes to the ward of broken hearts when his heart breaks only to discover where he is meant to be.