Grimm's Anatomy Stay, Don't Stare

At Mercy General, the metaphors are literal.

A curse can scar. Shame can grow roots. A fairy tale can decide it knows who you are better than you do.

Dr. Tessa Ward transferred to the hospital’s forgotten East Annex because she was tired of trauma surgery. Instead, she finds a supernatural pathology unit treating werewolves, vampires, cursed children, impossible pregnancies, and patients whose stories have begun rewriting their bodies.

Fortunately, Nurse Hattie Boone knows the rules.

Do not call anything weird where the patients can hear you.

Do not confuse watching with witnessing.

And if Death is in Exam Three, do not offer him coffee. He will accept. Then he will stay.

But when damaged stories begin spilling into the hospital and one unnamed patient starts disappearing beneath the roles everyone else assigns her, Tessa faces a problem no medical textbook prepared her for.

How do you treat a story without letting the story become the patient?

Darkly funny, strange, and unexpectedly human, Grimm’s Anatomy: Stay, Don’t Stare is an urban fantasy about medicine, monsters, bureaucracy, consent, and the dangerous assumption that recognizing someone’s story means you understand them.

At Mercy General, the first rule is simple:

Stabilize the patient. Not the plot.