FIVE
UNTIMELY RESCUES
Dan drove back to the hospital, numb.
Thoughts of Stuart Farmer, his best friend since college, filled his mind. He remembered the all-night keggers and the girls they dated. During their first year of college, Dan made it his business to loosen up the tense English lit major. Stuart was one of those people who left notes on everything. Against the fridge door reminding you to buy milk. On the wall above the trash, so you remembered to take it out. A dozen texts telling you he was coming in late that night. Dan could not even remember the number of arguments during their four years at college about the edibility of day-old pizza stored under beds.
He drove trying to see through the windshield as tears filled his eyes. His best friend was dead, and he might well
