The Doctors Said The Little Boy Was Beyond Saving

who’s just decided the world might be survivable needs to feel like he’s the one moving, not like he’s being pulled. He climbed into my lap and put his face against my collarbone and finally – finally – he cried. Big, ragged, animal sobs, the kind that had been stuck behind his teeth for a month and a half.

I wrapped him up and rocked and kept tapping continue reading …