The Call · Chapter and Verse · Pulse Beat
A reading from The Quiet Exam.
From The Quiet Exam, chapter two. His father rang before he could ring first. Dev. The voice was calm, which was worse. Come home first, his father said. And then, so quietly that Dev almost missed it: it is not the end of the world. He put down the phone, and found that instead of comfort he felt something like panic. That was Chapter and Verse.