Giving Blood

By: Jon Jefferson

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

The tip of the needle is as sharp as a thorn, but it makes only a slight indentation as it touches the bulging, blue-black surface of the vein. George Hartley marvels that something as fine and sharp as that tip—created by slicing a hollow tube at a low angle—can even graze the delicate skin without piercing it. The flesh on the inside of the elbow is thin, pale, and dusted with freckles; the vein is engorged from the elastic tourniquet on the upper arm; the machined needle is precise, purposeful, and perfect in the single-mindedness with which it exists to puncture human veins and funnel blood into one pint plastic bags.

©2015 American Blackguard, Inc. (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

Sick, Sad Story . . . a New Low

Normally I like these stories, but this one is horrible . . . dropping to a new low . . . when the good guys are no better than the the evil ones, the killers and the criminals . . . when a former nun is complicit in murder, just count me out. 😰