My Parents Left Me in the ICU and Flew to Cancun Until I Saw the Same Name on the Visitor Log Every Night

you have been.

The same name, every night.

Ethan Vale.

I think about Dana sometimes, telling me in that careful voice that there had been someone there, every night, as if she wasn’t sure whether it would be a comfort or a complication. I think about the moment I lifted my hand toward the glass and he nodded back, the small wordless exchange of two people continue reading …