When the Lights Go Out, the Vows Get Tested in the Dark

rolled her out on the stretcher, her face small under the harsh porch light.

Her hand reached for me, searching.

I took it.

And I walked beside the stretcher down the driveway, snow falling into my hair, the neighbor’s security camera recording the whole thing for whatever story someone needed later.

At the hospital, everything smelled like cleaning solution continue reading …