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

cupcakes and drank lemonade like every community event since the beginning of time, and Reggie told a joke I had heard a dozen times and laughed at anyway.

When everyone left, I watered the delphiniums and stood in the soft dark that belongs to late summer.

I walked through the house slowly, running my fingers along the marks on the wall where Denise continue reading …