Medicine Stories

One thing was for sure, his memory was going. The only thing he remembered about this mission was that he was supposed to deliver some eye medication to a pregnant girl named Maria for her baby. Who knows, they might call the child Jesus and, maybe, it might lead a revolution or something. Not his concern, his job was to deliver the medicine on time. It was his last mission and he wanted to get it right. This Maria, maybe...

Weightlessness still made Bethany a little queasy. Watching the stars outside the window, she stalwartly braced herself between narrow confines of her bunk, as if it helped. Eight weeks up, then back. She was studying what happens to human reproductive glands in zero gravity. The stars outside of her window shone so much brighter than they did on the planet below. Two weeks in, she still wasn't used to it. They lit her ca...

After I graduated from high school, I decided not to go to college or university. I wanted to earn money and see the world, because I thought I am good at English. But before looking for a job, I wanted to spend some time in Tokyo. I grew up in Osaka and the Kansai area is pretty familiar to me. But Tokyo was something different, more modern, and more international. My 18 months older brother went to university in Tokyo a...