Number 27: Stabbing

by Harry Colfer

Winner of the SD Harvey Short Crime Story Award 2021

Jono tries out yoga breathing as a way of coping with the everyday frustrations of the paramedic-hospital interface. He eventually manages to dump off his latest ‘Google Doc’ scholar, and takes the opportunity for a cuppa. But that’s when his crewmate, Scotty, wishes for some real work. Moments later, they’re off responding to a nearby patient who has a central stab wound.

25 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 14, 2021

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.