A review by alisbalik
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

4.75

 I was swallowing the past pages with waiting pauses when going home. I stood looking in, not being able to unsee a crying boy in snow being blindly and silently beaten by an older woman. How I stood in shock and then went on frozen inside. As I was waiting, my entire body yearned to run and hide that boy in me, not letting anything hurt him. At least at that moment. I could have helped him at least then.
 
So many things get in the way of us acting on that cry from inside. Yet what happens if we do?