Ask Me Again by E.J. Noyes

Author:E.J. Noyes [Noyes, E.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781594936128
Publisher: Bella Books
Published: 2018-11-15T08:00:00+00:00

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The interview was invasive and discomforting. Instead of focusing solely on the work we did to bring people home to their families, the questions had turned to what it was like to have coworkers and friends operating on me, and my subsequent recovery and return to work. When it was over, I’d shaken hands with everyone, thanked them politely and rushed off—counting the whole way to the bathroom—to vomit.

I left work on time and took a half-hour detour to meet Jana. The parking gods smiled on me and after only fifteen minutes of swearing and pleading I found a spot a block away. Pulling my jacket collar up against the misting rain, I rushed along the sidewalk to my sister’s favorite coffee shop. Head down, I ducked under an awning and at the last moment veered around a guy huddled on a step a few doors down from the café door. I stumbled, catching myself against the brick façade of the building and knocking over his damp piece of cardboard. “Shit. I’m so sorry.”

“Don’t worry about it,” he replied amicably, fumbling for the sign which had fallen just outside of his reach. The man’s eyes lingered on my uniform, then found mine and he added a polite, “Ma’am.”

I leaned down to pick up the cardboard and propped it back up against the wall. My eyes strayed to the neat block lettering.

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