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Hospital or clinic stories
Hospital or clinic stories, from quick reads to long series. Most hospital or clinic stories here sit in erotic horror and toys & masturbation. Reads run 12 to 24 minutes. Writers to know: River Atlas, Sparrow Tale and The Sparrow Chapter. Readers usually start with “The Missing Groom's Map” and “The Sandwich Board”. Ranked by how many readers finish them. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
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21 22 The Darkroom Incident
Phillip called me on a Thursday to brag.
23 The Crane Operator's Harmonica
The drive took three hours and I spent most of it arguing with myself about whether I even deserved the night off.
24 The Night Shift Feed
I punched in at 7:01 p.m., which is a stupid thing to say about a night shift, so let me back up.
25 The Bell Tower Date
My cousin Sheena has been telling me for years that I'm set in my ways.
26 Drawbridge Blues
The drawbridge is stuck open and I am stuck on the wrong side of my own courage, which honestly feels like a more serious mechanical…
27 The Night Shift Lesson
I got off my shift at six, went home to shower and eat, and drove to the clinic at nine.
28 The Last Hour
The apartment I rent has good light and bad acoustics, and by that I mean the walls don't do anything to help you.
29 The Hidden Photo
The cat started yowling around eleven on Tuesday night, and by midnight I was carrying her carrier through the rain to the emergency vet…
30 Gravity Shift
Jules leaned against the door frame of the radiology suite and watched Lea fight with the lead apron on the hook.
31 The Chain Locker Shift
Candace had hidden the cake in the chain locker at three in the morning, which was a ridiculous thing for a woman of fifty-three to do…
32 The Pink Scrub
The phone buzzing on the nightstand woke me out of a dream I was already losing.
33 Cadaver Comfort
Paige sat at the counter with a toe tag in one hand and a Sharpie in the other.
34 The Type Case
From: Hayley To: Denny Subject: night shift, again Hi honey.
35 One Last Confession Before Dawn
*This story came from a quiet curiosity about what happens when two old friends break their own unspoken rules for one night.
36 Last Whiteboard
I was thirty-seven years old, three years out of my divorce, and sitting in the IT wing of St.
37 After Hours at the Barber
My name is Dakota Mooney, I'm thirty-four, and I tend bar at The Velvet Tap in a midwestern city that shall stay nameless because my…
38 The Braid Job
I still don't know why I flicked on all the overheads instead of just the ones over the sink.
39 Downward Spiral
Lizzy Massey was thirty-two years old and she had a plan, and the plan was to get fired.
40 Rooftop Reservation
The rigging took me two weeks and it was perfect.
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10 to 30 minutesBest hospital or clinic stories of 2026Writers known for it
River Atlas, Sparrow Tale, The Sparrow Chapter, Spark of Stone
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Hospital or clinic stories, from quick reads to long series.
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Most hospital or clinic stories take 12 to 24 minutes, and the average is 19. Sort by shortest to start small, or follow a series to get each part as it lands.