The thing that wouldn't leave

Seizures returned with the heatwave that was now baking the island. Lilith stood in the corner behind her bed, rigid, unblinking. Her parents had laid cushions all around the floor, in case they failed to catch her once she fainted. “Go away,” Lilith said. She wasn&rsquo;t talking to her parents. She fixed her eyes on the opposite wall. Her pupils were ink spots, round and large. “Go away. Move.…