The short story “People Like That Are the Only People Here”
Listening to the band Coldplay while reading “People Like That Are the Only People Here” gave the story’s tragedy a truly relevant soundtrack: “Questions of Science, science and progress…Running in circles, Chasing tails, coming back as we are…”(Coldplay, The Scientist). The circular swirl of pain, tragedy, and incongruity the parents of a baby diagnosed with cancer felt was passed on to me in such a way that I was speechless and