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

rendered in careful detail, every rib of the umbrella drawn individually, rain indicated by small diagonal lines. The three figures were different heights. Underneath, in his block print, he had written: People who come when called.

I cried in my car on the drive home, somewhere around the point where the city lights started thinning out and the road continue reading …