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

and more uncertain. She looked between him and me and back at him, and I watched her try to find the version of this situation that she could manage, the angle from which she could exert control, and I watched her fail to find it.

“Rowan,” she said finally, turning back to me, her voice adjusted to the register she used when she wanted to pull me back continue reading …