I like to imagine the grass is super tall when I lie down in it, so tall no one can see me. The neighbors had all gone back inside. It was strange to see them all in their yards and at their doors looking at our house, but I guess I’d look too and want to know. The ambulance didn’t use their siren when they left. That’s because it wasn’t an emergency anymore, Daddy said. He was away when it all happened.

As a young child, I was convinced there had been a time when I could fly.

One day, I simply remembered; I used to be able to fly. The memory came to me all at once, clicked on as though my brain had tuned into a station which had previously been static. It felt like a dream, yet there was a clarity to it I couldn’t deny. In my mind’s eye I could see the world floating beneath me. I couldn’t go very high or fast, and not outside of the house, details which made me believe firmly in the memory.