“You ain’t allowed to have no emergency,” he said. “See, poor folks, they always got emergencies. No money. No job. Too much drinkin’ and drugs. We is an emergency. They tired of that. They say, you mess up, you deal with it.“If you want to read more from the short story "Emergency Room" by Patty Somlo, visit Guernica.
Patty Somlo is a short story writer and former journalist. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize and was a finalist in the Tom Howard Short Story Contest. Her work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Baltimore Sun, The Honolulu Star Bulletin, The Santa Clara Review, The Sand Hill Review, Fringe Magazine, and Common Boundary: Stories of Immigration (Editions Bibliotekos 2010), and is forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review (October 2010) and several anthologies. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
