Montana Bass
When Marcus first bought the storm suit a decade ago, I teased him for it. It was early 2022 then—toxic floods were still relegated to future terrors and tornado warnings were still exceedingly rare in New York.
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Lauren Cassani Davis
He still believed in Santa and the Tooth Fairy, and thought good things happen to good people. I, on the other hand, had just turned 10. I knew how the world worked.
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James Morena
The little girl had celebrated her fourth birthday two months ago. The father will turn fifty-three in a few weeks. He had gifted her a similar-looking Mexican bearded lizard that day, which still lay belly up in the dirt. There were no gila monsters at the store.
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Reshmi Hebbar
Inclusivity was crucial. There was no need, given what they had waited so long to celebrate, to judge or criticize anyone else’s choices. It would be a ceremony for a new moment, a new country. A new way of moving forward after almost suffocating in isolation, drowning in fear.
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