Number 03: Animal Bite

by Harry Colfer

One in a series of humorous short stories about Jonothan Byrne, an Intensive Care Paramedic responding to emergencies in Brisbane, Australia (5407 words). The books can be read in any order as the number in the title refers to the codes used to dispatch ambulances:
This shift Jono is working with Bree McLoughlin, a fiery Irish redhead with a sarcastic nature that rivals his own. The cab-based banter is running thick and fast when they get dispatched to a child who’s been bitten by a snake. It’s only at this point that Jono discovers his fearsome crewmate, “Hates feckin’ snakes!”

20 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 19, 2017

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.