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

either of these things, not because I was cold but because I did not know what to say to them that would be true and useful at the same time, and I had decided some years ago that I would rather be silent than say things that were either untrue or useless.

Ernesto came back into the room after their car had gone down the lane. He stood in the doorway continue reading …