RICHIE SMITH
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Interview with a Zombie Scientist
In Celebration of Doctor-Zombie Awareness Month I had the pleasure of an interview with Horsch Tuzack, director of clinical research at the famed Wurzola Institute. We discussed Zombies and the science behind their disorders…
My Walking Dead Screen Test
Some time ago, shortly after medical school, a patient approached me to act in a TV series. He was a short German man with a disintegrating nose and a limp, and claimed he was directing a new television series based on the infamous…
From the Writer’s Journal
Seal your convictions in a long thin business envelope.
Notarize it.
Stamp it…
Lying on the Steet: Spring Chrome
The view is still quite colorless from down here.
Many depressed by a harsh winter hope to find solace
in the color of spring…
Lying on the Street: In Blue Ice
They step over us
on salted slushy streets
with cobalt coats, icy blue eyes…
The Disintegration of My Sole
A man in these shoes walks tall
stoic like a Great Dane
sipping coffee in their vibrant, ergonomic home…
Mad Hatters
Suddenly the city is inundated with an invasion of guys in corrupted fedoras, strutting around as if they stepped off the set of C movies; descendants of the gangs of New York, extras from old remakes of the Thomas Crown affair…
Prison Stripes
This week a lot of New Yorkers and some Native Americans have combined their Afghans with the prison garb they gathered from EBay. I see stripes and blankets wrapped around solitary figures of all shapes and sizes, wide as mobile…
Curbside Consult 1116
At first I think he wants money, then directions, until he staggers, almost tripping over the fire hydrant.
He carries jars of supplements labeled with warnings and radiation symbols. With every…
Do You Know Your Risk Score?
There are calculators and risk scores.
You can estimate your risk of a future heart attack or stroke. You can plug in your age and find out how much calcium there should be in your arteries. Some scores look at your…
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