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

no agenda and the space between sentences is something neither of them needs to fill.

Before he left, he stood at my door with his keys in his hand and said, “I’ll be back on Saturday. Unless you’d rather I wasn’t.”

“I’d rather you were,” I said.

He nodded. He looked, for a moment, like a man who had been holding something carefully for a long time and continue reading …