‘The pain was visceral yet I was entirely dislocated from it. I was stuck inside my little screen’
I’m not sure why I was lying awake at 0545. Outside, the light was starting to break, but it wasn’t particularly bright. I was listening to the infrequent hum of cars as they passed by the house. And then I heard it. The buzz of a message landing in my phone.
It’s funny how devastating a binary code of zeros and ones can be once they become text. I knew who it was. I knew what it was going to say. I reached for my phone stared at
