The Boyfriend App
is playing in her mind over and over; an earworm that’s the opposite of the melodic words that Ecto used to collect: cellar door, nychthemeron, hiraeth, syzygy, vellichor…
She tries to think of Ecto’s favorite words like magic spells inside her head, to drive away the ponderous and unnatural feel of "quadriplegic"
“Aarggh! It’s so frustrating!”
Nathan’s cry snaps Kate back to the right-here, right-now. His face is red in exertion and a muscle in his jaw keeps jumping back and forth.
“My brain knows what I need to do right now. I need to grab and squeeze your hand, look you in the eye and tell you: ‘I don’t blame you, it’s not your fault’. But my whole body’s like this… this avatar in a game