I found the angel dangling from the end of her halo, her limp body suspended by the prettiest cloud in the sky.

She was still alive, I noticed, as I hurriedly untied the knots in her halo.

I collected her wispy body and crinkled halo and vanished into my apartment. I didn’t know what I was going to do with the angel. I wanted to nourish her but I also wanted to eat her. So I placed her on my blue velvet couch and watched her.

She slept the way you sleep after something traumatic happens. Was her trauma her attempted suicide or all that preceded it? I could never know.

The sky darkened because it wanted its angel back. It crackled and groaned, but still she slept, her chest rising and falling slightly in response to some life still stirring inside her.

The rain came and her cloud pounded on my window. “Don’t make me go back there,” she whispered. “I hate it.”

I pressed my vial of antidepressants into her hand. She sat up and forced a smile.

Then she took her halo and smoothed it out before placing it several inches above her head, where it stayed.