My Little Sister Gave Away Her Lunch Money to Buy a Lonely Boy at the Hospital a Birthday Cake – The Next Morning, We Found a Black Balloon Attached to a Red Box on Our Lawn

Syd.”

“Parts?”

“The free parts.”

I set down the shirt I was holding.

“Della.”

She sighed like an exhausted grandmother trapped inside an eight-year-old body.

“Nobody dies from skipping canned peaches.”

“Why are you saving lunch money, monkey?”

She hugged the tin tightly.

“I have a project. A hospital boy.”

The hospital was two blocks from her school. Della continue reading …