I Went To The Hospital For My Son Until A Nurse Told Me To Check The Camera

I went back to Howard’s room and sat in the chair across from Jasper and watched my son sleep and counted the minutes in a way that was not quite patience and not quite dread but something containing both.

At five minutes to three in the morning I slipped out of the room and knocked on the security office door. A guard in his sixties with the weary continue reading …