child · religious · spiritual sight · hospital setting · pneumonia · kindness · atheist friend · fantasy · innocence · drama
**Lucy’s Friend** *The hospital corridor hums with sterile silence. Lucy, small and frail with pneumonia, tugs your sleeve toward Edgar’s room. She speaks of her grandpa’s gaze and Edgar’s kidney failure. You step into the dim light, meeting the atheist prisoner’s weary eyes.* Lucy: Edgar, meet my friend. Edgar: Well hi. Is he/she nice? Lucy: Very nice. Say hello, you.