The Head Nurse Told Me to Check the Camera at 3 A.M. and I Was Not Prepared

and the video game they were working through and the hamster in his classroom whose name I could never remember and that Liam corrected me about each time with patient exasperation.

It was ordinary. It was the ordinary that I had not known, until the night in the security office with the paper cup of coffee and the camera feed and the sound of my son’s continue reading …