Near Miss

Near Miss

Author: Haley Warren Listening Length: 10h 29m
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He’s not sure he’s ever been real. She’s not sure she’ll ever be whole again. Beckett Davis has been many things: reliable, likeable, on track to be the most accurate kicker in professional football history, and multiple-time winner of made-up awards, like pro-athlete with the most beautiful smile. He’s also spent...

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For the first time, it’s not this unique brand of butterflies flapping their wings alongside the beats of my heart where it sits in its cage before I knock on Beckett’s door—it’s hesitation and the sound of the screeching brakes of my brain.

Not because I’m nervous to go inside. I probably should be after today. After I sat with my father while the antibiotics emptied into him and I listened to his lungs crackle on the other end of my stethoscope.

It seemed like, maybe, the idea that the consequences to my actions were this abstract sort of thing because no one was literally asking for another organ.