My Fever Dream Drummers

An old hallucination reveals a new lesson

I was seven years old and home sick fighting a serious fever. I spent four days in bed, sipping flat ginger ale through ridiculously fat green straws. Although my memories of this time are a little hazy, I remember during this bout of illness, I I would wake up just long enough to moan a couple times so melodramatically and then back right asleep. I was…