My Father Knew Him the Second He Stepped Into Frame

one cares about speeches.”

The room went very still.

Tyler’s jaw moved once.

“For what it’s worth,” he said, “I watched the video. All of it. You were…” He shrugged. Couldn’t finish. “You were good.”

I almost smiled.

From Tyler, that was a sonnet.

He pushed himself up on the crutches, awkward and sweating.

At the door he stopped.

“He’s gonna ask again about continue reading …