The Hospital Called About A Boy Who Listed Me As His Emergency Contact Until I Walked Into His Room And Everything Changed

person I had ever known. Not in the relentless, performative way some people are alive, the ones who seem to be constantly auditioning, but genuinely, contagiously alive in a way that made ordinary things interesting. A bad diner became an adventure. A failed exam became material. A rainy Tuesday night became a reason to dance barefoot in the parking continue reading …