Dark Before the Dawn

Elaine Poehler, a former patient at the Charlottesville Juvenile Mental Health Institute, is attending a likely ill-conceived Halloween party as an Alumna. At the party, she remembers her time as a Long Covid patient, and the light in the darkness that was Sunny Mehta, when she gets a mysterious text. ['It's Samhain' writing prompt contest submission on FreetheLGBT]