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

moving through me since I arrived tightened another degree. “Do you know where she is?”

“We’re looking.” He paused. “Are you able to stay with the boy?”

I looked through the small window in Oliver’s door. He was sitting exactly where I had left him, both hands resting on the blanket, his eyes moving between the door and the window with the patient vigilance continue reading …