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  She Flipped Me Onto My Spine Before I Finished Laughing

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  My Dad Shuffled Into My Business Meeting and Said Six Words That Destroyed Everything I Thought I Knew

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  My Dead Name Just Walked Through the ER Doors in Someone Else’s Hands

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  She Said One Word at a Military Dog Auction and Thirty-Two Dogs Went Silent

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  The Janitor at Lane 5 Didn’t Miss

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  She Told Him Not to Touch the Rifle. He Touched It Anyway.

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  She Came to Deliver Lunch. The Tattoo on Her Arm Ended Three Careers.

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  My Classified Phone Rang in That Precinct, and a Cop’s Knees Actually Buckled

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  I Watched a Colonel Cut Off Her Braid. Then She Opened Her Jacket.

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  My Sister Signed Papers to Erase Me While I Was Still Breathing

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  The Colonel Was Already Writing His Lesson When the Range Master Said, “Check the Back Wall”

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  My Commander Ordered Me to Burn Off My Tattoo in Front of the Whole Formation