‘My shoes tapped along the long echoey lino corridor as I headed for the psycho-geriatric ward that I’d been assigned to. The featureless passageway was empty, no one to be seen until I reached an external door where a young woman was mopping the entrance way . . .’
Read more in A Key to the Asylum at Dorothy Parker’s Ashes.
This essay, set early in my working life when I still wanted to be a social worker, was published in online literary journal Dorothy Parker’s Ashes in October 2026. The theme for the issue was failure.
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