Hi listeners, I'm Samantha Wehr and I have a story I want to tell you. A story about a strange hospital

and an even stranger visitor. So gather round and this and close.

They put me on the ward today. That's what they call it here. The ward of the hospital that

they send all the alien who aren't about to get any better. I suppose anyone on a ward just

calls it the ward though. We ain't special. I've been in St. noggaries for a few months now

in and out of different wings, seeing different doctors, taking different pills and shots,

been shipped up and down elevators to different departments as if I was Christmas shopping at blooming

dails instead of dying. It doesn't matter what's wrong with me. Just matters that they can't fix it

and I've gotten no more else to go. So they sent me to the ward. I heard a lot of stories about the

ward being bounced around so much. Saw them send a lady down there covered in burns from head to toe.

Apparently she was stuck in a house fire. I haven't ever seen her come out and I'm headed

the same place she went. I heard the nurses. They don't care for you as much as they take care of you.

Like a dog nobody wants. The food is worse. The beds are worse. The air is worse.

Breathing in all the same air as 30 other people who are dying same as you. That's another thing about

the ward. There's no doors or walls. It's just open air. Sure, there's curtains, but they're not

worth a damn. The place is set up more like a barracks in a hospital. A row of beds on either

wall, no more than four feet apart. You get to know on another well. I've been here less than a day

and I know who can't clean themselves, who can't wipe themselves, who don't know why they're here

and who even don't know who they are. I spent months of my life trying to find a way to keep living.

One day here and death would be like healing. Maybe that's the point. This is a strange place to be.

Beside me, an old man told me I would get along great with his daughter who was coming by at

through a clock. That was a few hours ago now and just a little bit ago. He acted like he just met

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