Special Needs in Strange Worlds
Writers always try to research things when we write about them. When I wrote about a character who had suffered an amputation during war time, I tried to do my due diligence, reading up on how characters who endured a Civil War Era amputation survived the surgery, the infection, and the terrible conditions. And then there’s the struggle to live on with the change in one’s state, both the physical and mental aspects of that. In a piece I’ve been working on, I have a character with an amputated arm. (The setting is 1815 Russia, but the medical process then … Read more
