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

because it was unfamiliar in a specific way, the way things are unfamiliar when you have been without them long enough to forget what they feel like. It was the feeling of being in a car with someone who was not calculating what they needed from you. Who was just driving you home because you needed to get home and he was there.

My apartment was the continue reading …