My Family Ignored Me In The Hospital Until My Mother Saw My Name On The Pediatric Wing

than the fact that it was warm and bright and theirs. That was why I had built it. Not for recognition. Not for my name on a plaque. Not even to be noticed by my family, though that had happened anyway, in the sideways and unintended manner of most significant things.

I had built it because I believed that the world, tended carefully and over time, continue reading …