Three Cups of Morning Coffee at the Oakhaven Diner Changed Everything

I closed my eyes and breathed through my nose, listening to the rhythmic release of air from the valve.

The monitor gave three short beeps. I opened my eyes and looked at the green screen. One hundred and eighteen over seventy-four. My pulse was sixty-six.

I opened my black notebook, which I kept tucked beneath a stack of old historical continue reading …