Country Club Nurse
Country Club Nurse
She was known as Nurse Sanders at the Club where only the super rich and most famous people were allowed to become members. How could she get Captain Joseph Mackenzie to realize that she could never be one of them?
They were the glamorous super-rich—could she help heal their broken lives?
Caring for an overindulged young socialite at the wealthy Chanticleer Club, Nurse Erda Sanders soon finds a new romance among “the beautiful people” — as well as plots and counterplots threatening not only her principles but lives!
A few things…
My niece, Elisabeth, is getting married tomorrow. If you want to find me at the reception tomorrow night, I’ll be the dashing, devil-may-care playboy standing in the parking lot with a white, double-breasted dinner jacket, a cravat, and slack arms.
A according to a 2005 report from the Internal Revenue Service, you need to earn at least $100.3 million in Adjusted Gross Income to be counted among the “super-rich.”
Noted without comment: Chanticleer.
And, finally, I leave you with an early draft of a song by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim.
Erda
The most beautiful sound I’ve ever heard.
Erda, Erda, Erda, Erda…All the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word:
Erda, Erda, Erda, Erda…
Erda, Erda…Erda!
I’ve just met a girl named Erda,
And suddenly the name
Will never be the same
To me.Erda!
I’ve just kissed a girl named Erda,
And suddenly I’ve found
How wonderful a sound
Can be!
Erda!
Say it loud and there’s music playing —
Say it soft and it’s almost like praying —
Erda…
I’ll never stop saying
Erda!Erda —
Say it loud and there’s music playing —
Say it soft and it’s almost like praying —
Erda —
I’ll never stop saying Erda!
The most beautiful sound I ever herd —
Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrda.
Comments
westerndave
are you serious? erda? is that short from erdath?
Kate
Just a few things:
That is all.
Kimball
“Erda” (when uttered in an English accent) rhymes with “murder” (when uttered in an English accent)—another subtle, yet unmistakable, warning that this nurse book collection has taken a dark, dark turn (irrespective of accent). The larger type and non-glare paper allow this now-sinister series to cast it’s shadow upon an expanded community of haunted readers.
chronicler
I think someone thinks that we all forgot about the group photo commitment. ;-)
Natalie
Can I just tell you how happy it makes me that you read for Mr. Collins? I heard (from a very reliable source, I might add) that you were “absolutely hilarious, of course!”
I am excited, Grettir. I hope you are planning on auditioning.
elisabeth
Sent a few ladies your way (none, of which, were named Erda).. Did they find you?