Because of a Rotten Fish
Chapter 1. The Emptiness Inside Sally the receptionist/nurse stuck her head round the door and said, ‘That was the last, Prue.’ Prudence cleaned down the examination table then washed her hands. A dog with ‘The Itch,’ a cat with an aching tooth, a snake that wouldn’t eat and a budgerigar in its cage but already dead, that had been the evening’s work. She went out to the reception area where Sally was doing the last of the clearing up. ‘You go and get something to eat, Prue,’ Sally said,...