I Traveled Across the Country to See My Son but He Told Me to Wait Outside Like a Stranger

going too fast. The room was very quiet. The motel’s ice machine down the hall made occasional sounds. I lay there until the heart rate settled and then I lay there longer because sleep was not going to come back. Sometime before five I must have drifted off again because the light was different and grayer when I next opened my eyes, and the phone continue reading …