The Column of Antonio S. Jiménez the Ghosts of the San Carlos Iii General Hospital: a Hand in the Glass

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It was a rainy winter afternoon at San Carlos Hospital in San Fernando, Cádiz. Of those afternoons when the wind slips through the slits of the automatic doors and the humid air mixes with the smell of disinfectant. I am a cleaner in this hospital for more than fifteen years, and I could say that I know by memory every corridor, every elevator that jams, every light that blinks when it is least convenient. But that afternoon, while the rain stru…