I find a bit of a leap between wanting to save the other patients and deciding to put them out of their misery, but that’s just me. If the facility is that bad, perhaps the thinking is justified.

“did not deserve to live out their last days tortured by the staff / what little spot of vitality remained was summarily beaten and harassed to nothingness by the staff”

They were in misery.

Very interesting take – a nice set up to the original. The speaker in the end of “Beyond These Walls” seems absent though.

I like the last line. She feels she must do something, and though what she is doing is wrong (and she knows it), she starts the fire.

Different from what I had in mind when I wrote Beyond These Walls, but good. You took the Shorn Head and went the Cancer route. I was watching to see if anyone would do that.

Nice job.

Five points to anyone who can tell me the meaning of “Tortabo”.

Wow, extremely dark set up for the other bit. Great job taking what she had and running with it to amplify the emotional context of the original piece. Exactly what a prequel should be—background, backstory, and a bit challenging/subversive to the original material.