“Then I laughed. It was this sick reflex – to laugh. But that was what people did, right? When they couldn’t cry or scream because they couldn’t feel enough to do either of those? They laughed. It was what happened to those too numb for pain, who instead sensed only a tickle. They laughed.”

“Then I laughed. It was this sick reflex – to laugh. But that was what people did, right? When they couldn’t cry or scream because they couldn’t feel enough to do either of those? They laughed. It was what happened to those too numb for pain, who instead sensed only a tickle. They laughed.”

— Laney Wylde