You could hear the grill sizzling. A dog barking next door. The tinny country music still playing like it didn’t get the memo.
My aunt tried to recover with a brittle laugh. “Well, Doctor, your patient can apparently walk just fine when nobody’s looking.”
Dr. Chen smiled.
It didn’t reach his eyes.
“Actually,” he said, “I can explain that.”
And then he did something my brother wasn’t ready for.
He pulled out his phone.
Read what was on that screen—and why the entire backyard went from “joking” to terrified 👇
