Slim's Broken Leg

A Saga Of The Plague Times

Excerpt:

“First thing I noticed was the ten or twelve delivery vans lined up outside the hospital, all cheerfully decorated. I later learned they were mobile morgue vehicles. There being no full scale morgue trucks available in Lovelorn— nothing like the Allied Van Line-sized behemoths parked outside hospitals in practically every big city to carry off all the dead from Covid—the city council simply requisitioned a dozen or so plain white delivery vans from used car-lots in town. The floors of the vans were laid with blocks of dry ice, then covered with canvas drop-cloths. I was told, if they managed it right, they could get as many as thirty bodies loaded in the back, if they stacked them. Some optimist on the council came up with the idea to disguise the vehicles' true intent by painting colorful balloons and rainbows on the sides and cheery bright smiley-faces on the rear doors. The effect was the appearance of a fleet of party trucks bringing a celebration to the sick and dying in the hospital. . . .”

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