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

to tell you is true and I wish it were not.

“They came by,” she said carefully.

I didn’t ask where they were. Where implied they might be nearby. “How long?” I asked instead.

Dana held my eyes. “About twenty minutes.”

The number landed like something dropped from a height. I heard myself repeat it, just the word, just to see how it sounded outside my head.continue reading …