They Made Me Wait in the ER While Prioritizing a Wedding Until Everything Started to Unravel

her. My father stared straight ahead with the expression of a man who has finally run out of usable angles. My mother said something about her daughters, as if that sentence were a defense, as if biological relation were the same thing as protection.

It was not. I had learned that in an ER chair, in a specific and permanent way.

The doors closed.

I walked continue reading …