I Heard My Uncle in the Hall Before I Saw What He’d Brought

like a kid caught where he shouldn’t be.

Thomas looked from him, to the envelope, to me.

“Nobody’s going out a window,” I said.

A beat.

Thomas stepped aside and shut the door again.

“Then he’d better talk fast.”

He did.

What Fell Apart in Forty-Eight Hours

I was discharged the next afternoon with pain meds, breathing exercises for my ribs, and a list of things continue reading …