Phyllis’s Reviews > Celestial Lights > Status Update

I've been gone for almost five years, cut off from the world, birthdays and Christmases, gone without so much as a call from Earth. … I wasn't crying because I missed home, but … For the years I hadn't seen pass but that now flooded the room like ghosts. I mourned that young boy and girl, whose biggest worry was whether they should reach for each other's hand as they lay on the carpet, staring at the ceiling.