My Sister Signed Papers Before I Was Dead

she pretended didn’t exist.

My leg still shakes when I’m tired. My voice gets rough if I talk too long. There’s a scar under my hairline that itches when rain comes, which sounds fake but is annoyingly true.

Project Redline entered field trials the next spring.

The first life it saved was a nineteen-year-old private outside Mosul who’d taken shrapnel continue reading …