New Story: The Adjusters #43

Here is August's installment of The Adjusters, “Sanderson's Initiation”, wherein Sanderson learns about an entrepreneurial venture of Gutierrez.

As usual, comments welcome.

I'll also remind you that we have a Speculation Thread available for general discussion. (A thread which I read but do not comment on.)


The Adjusters #43 - Sanderson's Initiation

Sanderson worked three Saturdays and two Sundays every month. Not that it bothered him that much—he was still getting his bearings in the city, and did not have much of a social life. Like many people upon graduating and moving to a new area of the country where they knew no one, he was having difficulties creating a social circle. Making new friends from scratch was painful, especially without the socially-oriented college culture he had relied on for the previous half-decade. Everyone he knew worked at the Institute, and he did not feel close enough to his colleagues to hang out with them outside of work beyond the odd outing for drinks after work on Fridays. He had not asked Beatrice out either; their schedules did not match, and except for meeting up for lunch in the Institute’s cafeteria twice a month when their shifts overlapped in just the right way, he hardly saw her.

Not that he had much time to ponder his social and love life. He was kept busy, with most his time split between learning the rhythm of both the Institute and Blue Ward and getting to know the patients.

For the Blue Ward patients were unlike any he had ever encountered throughout his studies; they required individual attention to a degree that rivaled the schizophrenics with whom he had trained. He had never run across patients quite like them in case studies or the literature either. The nurses on the ward had confirmed what Doctor Dante had told him—and what his own cursory medical literature exploration had underlined—that these cases in Blue Ward were unique.


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Next month: “Awash”.