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

speaking. Her footsteps receded down the corridor, and then the hallway was quiet, and then it was just me and Ethan and the steady beeping of the monitor and the gray San Diego sky in the window.

He came fully into the room and sat in the chair beside my bed, the chair that had been empty when I woke up ten days ago, and he sat in it the way someone continue reading …