He Asked for a Divorce at Dinner

protected, reimbursement is a waste of time.

Thomas: Then we go for custody pressure. She won’t fight if she’s scared.

I could hear Tyler breathing into the phone.

Small. Fast.

“Did I do something bad?” he asked.

“No,” I said. “You did exactly right.”

My mother had stopped washing blueberries. Water still ran in the sink.

Tyler said, very quietly, “I don’t continue reading …