Hollyshorts 2025: Round 2
A lot of know the torture of spending interminable hours in a hospital, not as a patient, but as a loved one waiting for someone to recover, or watching them and knowing they never will. It's a unique sort of hell, one that's captured decently well in Transferable . This is a bit of a hard short to write about without spoiling the game, since it's one of those that feels like it's a pretty exact expression of a "what if" statement. Transferable The broader hook is that a woman is lying in hospital, a grisly infection slowly spreading through her body. It looks like something out of a horror movie, tendrils creeping further and further, a nurse marking how far they've come along her fingers. The woman's husband watches in horror as their kids sleep on the couch in the room. It's a scene that instantly rings familiar, even if you haven't experienced it exactly yourself. You really feel the weight of the husband's decision, see the pain in hi...
