Almosts

AlmostsFor seventeen years, Ilex has lived in the spaces between heartbeats—the "e;almosts"e; where disaster hangs suspended and lives hang in the balance. He cannot summon these moments; they arrive on their own, pulling him into the thickened air where he bends reality toward mercy, saving strangers who will never know his name. But every intervention costs him a piece of himself, and he has alw...