On Our 21st Birthday, We Received a Mysterious Box—We Gasped When We Saw What Was Inside

I saw the space between us where Nora should have been. I think she saw the same thing when she looked at me.

By the time our 21st birthday came around, I thought I had learned how to survive that emptiness.

I was wrong.

That morning, I woke before my alarm and lay there in the pale light of my apartment bedroom, listening to the city hum outside my continue reading …