Nine days of internship and it has come down to the lima bean. Fatigue can be anything, but muscle loss, throat ache and dehydration are clear symptoms of inanition.
Now, fully incapable of separating the salisbury steak in a TV dinner from a cadaver's chlonorchis sinensis she will cannibalize this bean or starve. The tip of the scalpel nicks and then slips through its thin and veiny skin, smooth as unzipping a jacket. When she deftly turns her knife and exposes the insides, the tuberous flesh comes forth as though it longs to. She winces, impales it, and brings the tip of the scalpel to her lips.
