Science Fiction & Fantasy  Seal Team 13    The Kingdom of the
Blind  After the Apocalypse by Maureen McHugh  This story also
appears in Maureen F. McHugh’s new collection, After the
Apocalypse, which is available now from Small Beer Press.  At
3:17 EST, the lights at DM Kensington Medical did the wave.
Starting at the east end of the building, the lights went out,
and after just a couple of seconds, came back on. The darkness
went down the hall. Staff looked up. It was a local version of a
rolling blackout, a kind of weird utility/weather event. In its
wake, IV alarms went off, monitors re-set. Everything critical
was on back-up but not everything was critical, some of it was
just important, and some of it wasn’t even important, unless you
consider coffee a life-or-death substance. Which for a resident,
might be true. It was not life-threatening in the immediate
sense, but it wasn’t trivial and it interrupted two nurses and a
resident working on a woman in ICU having seizures, a pharmacist
counting meds, a CT