The Day I Stopped Dying

Ever since his diagnosis, Gary has been haunted by a cold, synthetic voice inside his head, begging him to divorce his wife Lucy before the marriage destroys him. He dismisses it: Lucy is his childhood sweetheart, the perfect wife everyone praises. Then a drunken intern named Brody arrives at their door at midnight, taunting him to check under Lucy's pillow, and the passcode on her phone has been quietly changed.

Lucy calls the incident the ramblings of a drunk and blames Gary's illness for his paranoia. But when she stays out past midnight, Brody answers her phone. Gary finds them together at a private lounge, and later, after a collapse lands him in the hospital for seven days, Lucy never visits. He returns home to find Brody's shoes on the mat and the two of them playing house in his kitchen.

As Lucy shields Brody and asks what more he wants, Gary is pulled back to a warm Tuesday afternoon from his childhood, when he came home with a straight-A report card and found his father with another woman.