He Blocked My Number the Night I Died

Hope’s first birthday was in the backyard of a small house in Topanga, with a fire station two minutes down

The trial took eight months. By then, Hope was eleven pounds and screamed like a fire alarm whenever anyone but

They arrested her in my wedding venue. Three detectives came through the door. Then Jude, who wasn’t supposed to be

I didn’t sleep. Jude didn’t either. He sat outside the NICU doors in a plastic chair all night, still in

Thirty million views by noon. Fifty million by midnight. I didn’t read most of it. Jude read it for me

Grandparents Seek Emergency Custody of ‘Miracle Fire Baby, Citing Mother’s Mental Health. It was everywhere by morning. My mother gave

Every phone in the room came up. Recording. My mother rushed past me-past me-and put her arms around Sienna. “It’s

Saturday came. I turned thirty in a hospital bathroom, putting on concealer over a fading burn on my jaw while

We didn’t send it to Sienna. At the last second, I changed my mind. “Send it to Caleb,” I told

My funeral was on Thursday. I watched it from a hospital bed, on a livestream with eleven thousand viewers. They