My Father Called Me A Zero In Front Of Officers Until The Colonel Asked For My Call Sign

walls. They are what allows something new to grow.

I left by the side door.

The Virginia sun was warm and golden, the kind of late afternoon light that makes everything look like it has already been through the hard part of the day and arrived at something softer. Above Langley, the sky was the particular blue that only exists at altitude, the blue you continue reading …