Night One — 11:17 PM The refrigerator hums in the kitchen, falls silent, then starts again. I’ve been staring at the same paragraph in my nursing notes for nearly twenty minutes. Outside, rain taps against the window while tree branches scrape and rattle against the frame. The temperature has dropped
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My grandmother died at 3:33 AM on a Tuesday, and her TV wouldn’t turn off. Not wouldn’t—couldn’t. We unplugged it. We cut the power to her room. We even took a hammer to the screen, but it kept playing, the jagged cracks creating a kaleidoscope of images that shouldn’t exist.
I stepped up to the dilapidated red building, grinning from ear to ear. This is what brought me thrills in life; abandoned structures across America. This particular one was in Stoneychurch State Park, located in a rural town just south of the state border. I had been dreaming
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