Going (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Amy Hempel
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: The 1970's or 1980's
- Setting: Southwestern United States
- Principal Characters: The narrator
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Memory, Accidents, Southwest, Nursing or nurses, Hospitals, Worms, Smell
- Locales: Southwest (U.S.)
The Story
The narrator is in the hospital following an accident in which he was the only victim, having flipped his car twice while going sixty miles an hour on a straight, flat road and landed in a ditch. He takes some offense at a typo on the hospital menu, “the pot roast will be severed with buttered noodles” because some part of himself could have been severed during the accident; instead, he only has twenty stitches on his chin and a two-day memory loss.
He reports several dual experiences: experiencing things as far away and close at the same time, while he was...
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