Pamela Hartmann

Pamela Hartmann is new to fiction writing. After a lifetime of teaching and writing ESL textbooks—for a living—she now does wildlife rehabilitation and writes fiction—for her soul. So far, she has three published stories: in the final issue of Solo Novo, the anthology Everywhere Stories, Vol II (Press 53), and Persimmon Tree.

My Trieste

When I woke up, I knew it was an emergency room. This was back in 1958, and it looked like scenes in Young Dr. Kildare on Million Dollar Movie.
“Take it easy, Kiddo,” I heard my father say, as I tried to sit up. He was hunched on a stool next to my bed, with an unlit cigarette clenched in the corner of his mouth.