My Children Came Back to the Hospital Pretending to Care but My Bed Was Already Empty

where no one could hear them. They had happened beside my bed, in a room where I was present, and I had been there for every word.

The room was quiet for a long time.

Diego put the folder back on the table. He did not say anything for a while. Graciela sat very still with her hands in her lap. Outside the windows the light was doing what it does in that continue reading …