Jessica Knauss
Bio
I’m an author who writes great stories that must be told to immerse my readers in new worlds of wondrous possibility.
Here, I publish unusually entertaining fiction and fascinating nonfiction on a semi-regular basis.
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Awash in Christmas Spirit
This holiday season, I had a shift at Rhode Island Hospital that was pretty rough. This wasn’t something I had to deal with back at home. In the middle of the Christmas party, some poor guy was wheeled in with a tree branch, complete with steel ornament hooks, through his upper leg. The decorations had been taken off already, and there was blood everywhere. I’m sorry, I have to gross you out because I work in the emergency room. It’s a lot of responsibility for a fifteen-year-old, but I’m the only one with the Talents for the job. So even though I’d rather be studying fourth-dimension architecture, I get it done.
By Jessica Knauss5 years ago in Humans
The Bloody Landing
I huffed up the grand staircase after work at the library and a stop at the market, my giant reusable shopping bag heavy on my shoulder. I always felt relieved that I lived in one of the two apartments on the first landing in my elevator-free building at moments like these. I was rummaging in my pocket for my keys when I reached the landing and practically didn’t register the pool of fresh blood on the parquet.
By Jessica Knauss5 years ago in Humans
