But the guilt goes even deeper than that. It, too, is dust: Layers and layers of it have accumulated.

“But hope got in, no matter how hard and fast I tried to stomp it out. Like thes…”

“I start to follow her, and Alex grabs my hand."I'll find you," he says, watchin…”

“It's a miracle I was able to get out of the house today. It's a miracle I'm eve…”

“I remember a story I once heard about drowning: that when you fall into cold wa…”