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

Since the first night after your family left.”

My skin prickled with something I didn’t have a name for. “Who?”

Dana set down what she was holding and looked at me directly. She had the eyes of someone who has developed the ability to deliver complicated news without flinching, not because it doesn’t affect her but because flinching doesn’t help anyone.continue reading …