He Saw His Ex Wife At The Hospital Until Everything Changed

without sentiment, with the low constant hum of a place that has seen too much to stop for any of it.

I had not come there for her.

I had come to see David.

David Pearce was my oldest friend and had been since the second week of freshman year, when we had both shown up to an eight o’clock lecture without having slept, sat down at the same table, and continue reading …