Loosen Up
By J.M. Snyder
Brody Stockton knocked on the closed door to his roommate’s room. “Liam?”
There was no answer.
He knocked again, worried. The past few weeks, Liam Martin had seemed to be slipping further and further into himself, spending his days hitting the books or rushing off to class, his nights interning at the Henrico Doctor’s Hospital emergency room. This was Liam’s last year of medical school, but he never seemed to let loose, have any fun. Brody shared the house with two other students—Liam and Adam Corsica—and of the three of them, only Liam seemed overwhelmed. With his internship, with clinicals, with his course load, not to mention the part-time job he had running a short-order grill at Patterson Deli on weekends. The guy never slowed down!
Everything was work wi
