Worst Case Scenario

by T.J. Newman

This is what community is. It’s not a place, it’s not a people—it’s the acts of love done in a place by those people.

“This is happening. If we got a year, a month, a week—I am here. I am with you. There are no lists. No protocols. It’s just us, living the moments we got. You and I know what most people don’t. That they’re just that. Moments. So we’ll spend them together. And it won’t be long enough. But it never is.”

All children should feel safe enough with the adults blessed to protect them that amid a potential nuclear meltdown, their biggest concern would be which bunk they’d get to sleep in.