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

too large and unfamiliar in my mouth, like a word I had known my whole life and suddenly could not pronounce. I started to say stay with me and I did not finish the sentence. The floor came up fast. I heard my headset hit the console, a hollow plastic clatter that seemed too loud for how quickly everything else went quiet, and then someone was shouting continue reading …