Howard J Rankin

In God's Waiting Room Howard J Rankin

2020 eLit Award!!!In 2009 Barbara Morello-O'Donnell, a successful architectural rendering artist, contracted the deadly H1N1 flu virus. In a coma, in total renal failure, and needing a heart transplant, it was not expected that she would survive. To complicate matters, she threw a major stroke, which in the unlikely event of survival would have meant that Barbara would be a blind vegetable. Isolated in a coma that trapped her in the cocoon of her own consciousness, Barbara experiences a different world, where every external sensation is transformed into a part of her own struggle for survival. Knowing at some level in her psyche that she is at death's door, Barb embarks on a journey that seems to lead beyond the living. Along the way, she meets a cast of characters, most of whom are symbolic of the real people in her life. But there are two encounters that are not with people of this world and they would change her life forever.