Owen Harte

The abilities arrived before the understanding of them did. When the fracture comes — and it has come, more than once — there is no middle ground, no catch. What remains afterward is paperwork, attorneys, a court-mandated therapist who writes careful things in a notebook, and a ten-year-old who sets his plate very quietly at dinner and doesn't ask about the news anymore. You are apparently better. Your son says so. He says it in a voice he learned to make even.