This is my post for #freewriters 2637 prompt mysterious clinic hosted by @mariannewest.
As I stepped out of the car my right foot landed in someone's car trash they had thrown on the ground. Walking across the parking lot I could see dirty diapers, soda bottles, places where ashtrays were dumped, and other trash. I thought this is a hospital, it would be better on the inside.
The waiting area was semi clean but had an old smell to it. As I walked the hallway there were stacks of trash piled along the walls. The floor had a glove here and there and paper products on it, but they did not look used. The walls looked as if at one time they were white but now looked to be yellow. The floor had a loose tile every so often.
I made it into her room, it had an odd smell. The paint was peeling in places. There was an old radiator mounted under the window and it was filled with dust. The window looked like it might have been painted back when they had lead paint. I looked behind the radiator and saw black mold and the mold also ran the floor line at the bottom of the walls.
I was in a small town in north Florida visiting my Stepmother and after seeing the condition of the hospital, there was no way when she got out that I was going to let them send her to a mysterious clinic in this same town. I do not even know why she was in this town, it was where the ambulance took her, all of the other times they sent her to Gainsville where there are clean hospitals. She lived with my brother and his wife, my Dad's wife was my brother's wife's mother. After Dad passed my sister and I still went to visit her.
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