Setting: Vaguely medieval, realistic with no magic, technology wise, something like the Renaissance era. It is a short story (~2k words) that will be focusing on the MC's trauma, so the only important things about the setting that I can think of right now are that it is a monarchy, and the mainstream religion is polytheism, believing in a pantheon ( Read more... )

[Very sorry this is late, anon! Happy holidays from me. --Orange Fell]The Setting: A psychiatric hospital ward community room in Colorado Springs in the present day ( Read more... )

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A follow-up to this post here (which you lovely people gave lovely answers to!) - turns out she hit a spur (that broke her ribs), bounced, landed on back and broke her arms and something in her back, and possibly hairline skull fracture.

Now I have more questions :D

1) I don't want her to be paralyzed - what can/'t she break? ( Read more... )

I'm writing a story in which a character is in a car crash and ends up in the ICU. When she comes out of surgery, it's found that one of her legs is permanently damaged in some way (along with some broken ribs and a concussion, as the crash was head on and quite severe). I couldn't think of the details of an injury that would leave her leg there ( Read more... )

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Setting: Complicated parallel universe with slightly malleable physics and late-Qing/pre-industrial tech; "magic" is available with strict adherence to internal physics ( Read more... )

Context: real life, present day ( Read more... )

My setting is present day (2013), Germany (Frankfurt am Main); technically Sherlock fandom but that's largely irrelevant; emergency room/A&E or other walk-in clinic where you might go after an accident. My character is John Watson, so he has a medical background and I'd like him be to some extent self-diagnosing-that part is plot relevant. I ( Read more... )

I have a character who's been tossed about, more or less like a ragdoll, by a large robot. He has one or more ribs and a closed head injury, both of which they are keeping an eye on. While modern (read: at least slightly better than present day) medical care is available, it's not immediately available for the character where he is now due to his ( Read more... )

Setting & character: Set in present time, Europe. My character is a 30-year-old male, fit and healthy. He's tall and kind of strong ( Read more... )

Situation: A mid-20's British soldier in excellent physical condition gets caught in an IED explosion in Afghanistan in 2002, leaving him with a partly fractured hip and a lot of superficial damage across his hip and side (ending up in scars). The fracture isn't that bad so the doctors decide on a hip resurfacing (metal-on-metal) rather than a full ( Read more... )