The old tailless #29 [End]

No shortage of curious eyes gazing upon them when they stepped out of the museum train. A station employee in a dark blue uniform asked if everything was okay. He thought the way the lieutenant was carrying an old man in white hospital pajamas on his back implied a medical emergency of a sort. "Everything…

The old tailless #28

The student with glasses led Alyosha and the boss to the underground metro where they were handed off to another member of the third gang. There was no other passenger on the train they boarded even though a few were seen waiting at the platform. In fact, some of them were gawking at them like…

The old tailless #27

Silence reigned the hallway as the deafening sound of a second point-blank gunshot ceased ringing in one's ear. Well, not exactly silence because someone among the hospital staff had finally decided to do the sensible thing and hit the fire alarm. The alarm, the screams, and the fanatic footsteps to the nearest exit all became…

The old tailless #26

The boss's head hit the ground with such forces that he could hear his skull rang like a tuning fork. He was on his side when the girl flipped his wheelchair and then all he could see, smell and sense was the rubber floor, which surprisingly did not smell like rubber at all and in…

The old tailless #25

A group of twelve highly suspicious men in uniformed black suits and polished leather shoes marched upon the two police officers unchallenged. The hospital staff wanted nothing to do with these men, the patients even less and the security guards only wanted these other four cars full of gangsters to get off the ER's driveway…

The old tailless #24

The boss, whose jaw was still too busy climbing up to his face from where he dropped it on the floor, eyed the girl in disbelief. Flowing in this child's veins was the blood of his archenemy. And, her appearance, eerily resembling someone from his memory, suggested the other half of her blood came from…

The old tailless #23

Sayaka dropped by the boss's room in the evening without much fanfare. The two policemen standing guard outside gave her no trouble at all after the drama they themselves were partly to blame. The boss was alone on his bed, eyes closed to rest. These days, he tended to sleep for many long hours, sometimes…

Oops, I accidentally NaNoWriMo…

Okay, I just updated my NaNoWriMo word count but did not realize I was in "Words this session" mode instead of "Total words" mode so my word count just hilariously doubled and the website sent me the winner badge. Deleting the faulty entry from progress update didn't help so... Anyhow...there's one thing I forgot to…

The old tailless #22

In the following week, the fruit of his physical rehabilitation began showing as the boss could move his shoulders and lift his arms above chest level. He was astonished by how much effort it took to accomplish something he had always taken for granted. Bit by bit, he was getting closer to being able to…

NaNoWriMo, the end is nigh

For your information, I did not plan this whole hospital arc at all. I planned to use the hospital as an easy time skip but research in coma recovery indicated a much longer recovery time than I anticipated. Just one more example of how the reality could derail my plot in unexpected ways through research.…