Number 30: Traumatic Injury: Ambo Tales From The Frontline

by Harry Colfer

Winner of the SD Harvey Short Crime Story Award 2022

Both Jono and his crewmate, Jan Reid, are amazed to discover they’re going to someone who believes he’s Spider-Man. Evidently, his climbing skills are in doubt, as he’s somehow broken both his ankles, but once on scene, it’s the paramedics’ Spidey senses that begin tingling… One in a series of humorous short stories about Jonothan Byrne, an Intensive Care Paramedic responding to emergencies in Brisbane, Australia (5,034 words). The books can be read in any order as the number in the title refers to the codes used to dispatch ambulances.

25 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 15, 2023

About the author

Harry Colfer is the pseudonym of a critical care paramedic who lives and works in Brisbane, Australia. Although his stories are totally fictional, his writing style is very realistic and he maintains a healthy level of paranoia with respect to his anonymity.

Other than the Ambo Tales From The Frontline series, he has written two full length novels featuring the same characters, a murder mystery, Dead Regular, and the thriller sequel, Beneath Contempt. He is currently writing the third novel in the Jono series, High Acuity, with the fourth and final book existing only as ideas, notes, and a title, Show Cause.