I Opened a .mil Email the Night My Family Buried Me Alive

look like a warm-up. A confidentiality note. A line that said attendance was by invitation and non-transferable.

At the end, under remarks, one sentence sat there plain as brick:

Candidate identified for unusual stress tolerance and superior performance under isolation.

I read that one twice.

Isolation.

Funny word.

I thought about the parade field. Three continue reading …