The Doctors Said The Little Boy Was Beyond Saving

he’d been about to say just died in his mouth.

The Salute

There was a man standing behind Bennett in the stairwell I hadn’t expected.

Older. Seventies. Straight-backed in a way that doesn’t come from posture, it comes from forty years of it being beaten into you. Gray crew cut. He was wearing a windbreaker and gripping the rail and his face was wet.

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