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

and because taking the hours was what I did. The dispatch room was warm and too bright, the fluorescent lights overhead giving off that particular buzz that becomes part of the auditory wallpaper of a room you spend too many hours in. I had been running on four hours of sleep and vending machine crackers and a kind of momentum that is not the same continue reading …