Just ahead of him Jessica grabbed the banister to pivot around another corner and kept on going. Josh ran until his legs felt stiff, then until they felt like jelly, then until he couldn’t feel anything any more. Josh didn’t know what floor they’d reached; he didn’t even know how close the two go...
Jessica was grabbing players by the arms and dragging them out of the way, but they were moving too slowly – Josh had to do something, anything... His eye fell on the concrete block. He gasped in a breath and leaped up, planting one foot on the block and using it to launch...
Mom was still working at ACT, and Dad still took care of us. We didn’t talk much about his being sick. After that first big conversation with Mom, it became something we lived with but didn’t focus on. My parents didn’t hide it—I knew that it was serious enough that Dad had been put on a list for...