Signal Fires

by Dani Shapiro

as a young man at the start of a great adventure,

He has answered his own question. The Wilfs will always remain within the walls of 18 Division. Just as the girl who died that August night long ago will always live inside the great oak. His parents are the breeze that crosses Classon Avenue in Brooklyn. The Mimi he has loved for more than forty years is still alive in the patient who now sits being spoon-fed oatmeal in the memory unit,

ago afternoon filled their lives with ineffable