“What’re you doing, Ed?”

He motioned for quiet, crumpling a napkin. “This moth’s toast.”

The insect was on the kitchen table.

“Don’t kill it, Ed. It has a life too.”

Life? Too? His face twisted.

After he released it into their backyard, it was almost immediately eaten by a bird.

David Sydney is a physician who writes fiction in and out of the EHR (Electronic Health Record).