He Smirked, Called Me “The Family’s IT Girl,”

shocked sounds like his body couldn’t believe pain still applied to him.

He looked up at me through it and managed, “You always needed witnesses.”

I said, “No. You did.”

Then I walked out and left medics to keep him from dying too easy.

After the Salute

By dawn, power had returned in strips.

Hospitals stayed up. Water plants came back one by one. Flights continue reading …