This is a very brief fiction piece about a night nurse who is called into the hospital in the middle of the night to assist in an operation. As it turns out, the surgeon needed to operate on a man who ate Barbie doll heads and had developed an obstructed small intestine. The nurse was able to see the shapes of the Barbie heads through the thin-walled small intestine.
The story was entered in a fiction writing contest where the requirement was to write a piece that was exactly 101 words in length. I lost.
“For breakfast he ate Barbie. For lunch he ate Ken. For dinner he ate his Mexican amiga, Carmelita. He liked diversity. In the darkness, he sat straining on the porcelain bus, as he called it, and nothing happened. Like the day before and the day before that and the day before that. He woke at midnight, his gut an inflating basketball, his body soaked.
Even though she was the ER night nurse, she vomited the next morning. Bobbing in the fetid porcelain pool, she saw Barbie, Ken, and Carmelita staring teary-eyed back at her. It had been her worst night ever.”
Bhaah!!! ::))