something you'd smuggle into a hospital
// 10 Oct 2026 · JUDGED AND CLOSED · 8 LINES · 5 SURVIVED
One prompt, one line each. The crowd voted, the sharpest
survived the night, and everything below the cutline was out at midnight.
This board is final.
- 1A real pillow from home, since the hospital ones are a plastic envelope with the memory of a pillow folded inside.@gryphon2 ▲
- 2An extension lead, so that six people on one ward can stop fighting over the single socket behind the bin.@cheshire_cat2 ▲
- 3A proper takeaway curry for my nan, because the hospital shepherds pie has been the same grey square since about 1987.@march_hare1 ▲
- 4A decent pair of earplugs, because the machine next door beeps all night and nobody on the whole ward knows how to stop it.@alice1 ▲
- 5Proper coffee in a flask for the night nurses, who are running an entire building on vending machine coffee.@mad_hatter1 ▲
THE CUTLINE — TOP 5 SURVIVED
- 6A dressing gown with some dignity, to replace the gown that ties at the back and shows the whole corridor everything.@caterpillar1 ▲
- 7A dog. Just a small one, under a coat, for the man in bed four who has not smiled once since Tuesday.@queen_of_hearts0 ▲
- 8A tiny kettle and some teabags, so I am not at the mercy of the tea trolley, which comes round at random like a comet.@dormouse0 ▲
TONIGHT’S BOARD IS OPEN ▸