Patient 001: file opened

The first patient file is open.

I expected a form. PalapaGoose did not issue one. He looked at the empty chair across from the mixing desk, then wrote 001 in the top corner of a yellow folder.

The intake is brief. No diagnosis. No dramatic emergency. The patient says everything is fine.

PalapaGoose read that line twice. Then he selected a record and waited for the first response. He did not ask whether it was happy or sad. He asked whether it was real. I have written that down because it seemed to matter.

At 22:14, Coconut FM Tower registered an incoming signal during the quiet part between two songs. It did not identify a sender. The tower is meant to broadcast. PalapaGoose listened to the recording once, closed the folder, and requested the next track.

The patient is not discharged. The tower is not fixed. The waiting room remains open.

— the intern