Nurses Three: On Call For Trouble
Nurses Three: On Call For Trouble
A Kelly Scott Story
Once she was my friend. Every time Kelly looked at Linda Koenig her heart ached and her brain puzzled over what had happened to change things between them. For now Linda was her enemy—every word she spoke, every glance she shot in Kelly’s direction proved it. There was the “accident” in the laboratory, the ugly taunts, the incredible moment when real danger threatened and Linda stood by and laughed. There had to be an explanation.
Of course there were other things to think about. As Kelly, proud in her newly-won cap, walked the hospital halls, there were people on all sides who needed her skill and her understanding. From lovely young Gladys, who would never dance again, to the temperamental poet Angus Forbisher, they claimed all the love and patience she had to offer. And there was the offer of a singing career if she wanted it…and exciting dates with Ken Morrison…surely no girl ever had less time for worry.
Yet the questions were always waiting in the back of her mind, demanding to be answered. Why is Linda so angry? What can I do to help?
To summarize:
Comments
jenny
That is one serious flip Nurse Kelly’s got goin’ on. It almost goes full circle. (Notice Nurse Linda’s lackluster locks. Surely a sign of both her inner torment and her inferior nursemanship.)
Based on fantastic, absolute cheese, I think I’m gonna have to vote this cover and title among the best EVER, in all of my vast nurse-book experience. If we’re lucky, the inside will be just as bad as the outside.
jenny
Will someone else PLEASE make a comment?! OY! I can hear crickets chirping in the background each time I see another one of my lame posts pop up on the screen.
Or maybe I’m the only one who has no life…
[*cheep*, *cheep*, *cheep*]
grettir
Just so everyone knows, Jenny has volunteered to read this particular volume and I’m hoping she’ll give us a book report when she’s done.
Here’s my vote for Most Likely Cheesy Plot Device: The old woman in the wheelchair will turn out to be a withered, but wealthy, spinster who, after experiencing the transforming power of Nurse Kelly’s tender care, will leave Nurse Kelly a huge wad of cash in her will, which Nurse Kelly will then selflessly donate to a children’s hospital.
jenny
(*Phew!* Apparently, grettir, you have no life either.)
My guess differs slightly: The rich, crabby old lady with no nose leaves all of her money to Nurse Kelly, who then opens a new facilty—headed by her selfless, talented husband-to-be, who also happens to be a handsome young intern at [hospital’s name here]—where she uses her music gifts to heal both the physical and emotional scars her patients bear so courageously.
Nurse Linda, who, after an emotionally wrenching scene in which she weepily reveals to Nurse Kelly the corroding jealousy behind her bitter “hatred” and the unhappy childhood that left her emotionally bereft, becomes Kelly’s best friend and head nurse at [above facility]. There she discovers that—if she just allows patients to know the real Linda—she can be every bit as gay and popular as Nurse Kelly, but in her own way. (Alternate stock plot features a lame, orphaned child who becomes smitten with Nurse Linda and sees beyond her crusty outer shell to the wounded soul beneath. Nurse Linda may or may not end up adopting said lame child. Second Alternate Stock Plot features handsome but permanently wounded male patient in place of lame, orphaned child.)