For some years now, I have been experimenting with the use of short fiction in my upper-level class on Biomedical Ethics and the Law. Biomedical ethics a subject nourished by stories. One can almost chart the course of legal progress in bioethics by invoking the names of the leading characters: Karen Quinlan,1 Nancy Cruzan,2 Baby M.3 It these people and their problems, and the often conflicting wishes of the people who love and care for them, that capture students' imagination and make bioethics such a compelling field of study. The family of Nancy Cruzan, for example, generously allowed themselves to be featured in a Frontline program so affecting that my students always choke up when viewing it. (A particularly instructive moment for law students when the lower court's opinion handed to the Cruzan family at home and they are left alone to puzzle out where the important stuff is and who actually won.) Donald Cowart, now called Dax, a burn victim who was treated against his will, the subject of two documentaries,4 numerous essays,5 and at least one book.6