❝ –– perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. and when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house—the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture—must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. and suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.
“Deal. But only if you promise not to nitpick every time one of the f i c t i o n a l cardio surgeons does something that you wouldn’t ever do in an actual, real OR.” Turning the television on, she popped the DVD into the player before skipping past the previews to the main menu. “Make sure you don’t burn my half this time!”
“Shut up!” Teddy called over her shoulder, laughing. “I know how to use a microwave. I’m not completely incapable, you know. Also, you can’t stop me from telling it like it is —— I mean, a purse-string suture for a simple repair? Please.”