After We Laid My Daughter To Rest, My Son-in-law Told Me I Had 60 Days To Leave

“It works until it doesn’t.”

She reached into her bag and pulled out a small plant in a chipped ceramic pot.

It was a forget-me-not, bright and absurd against the late winter light.

“Denise gave this to me last year after I organized a fundraiser with her,” she said. “She told me to take care of it because it only blooms if you don’t rush it.”

I felt my continue reading …