This isn’t the first story by Andrea Bishop I’ve featured here, and it surely won’t be the last. I didn’t get the double entendre of the title until just now, but the story has haunted me for days. It’s a stressful story, told from the perspective of a traumatized and anxious young boy on the way to visit grandparents in a downpour:
Cars are safer than motorcycles. Henry’s YouTube searches have taken him down increasingly gruesome paths, but the videos help him understand the difference between actual crises and the ones he dreams up, help him sift through the comforting lies adults tell to arrive at what might be true.