He Said My Mother Dying Wasn’t His Problem

a.m., my phone lit up with Ryan’s name.

I let it ring.

Then again.

Then again.

By one in the morning he had left six voicemails, each one shorter than the last.

“Rebecca, pick up.”

“Come on.”

“This isn’t what it looks like.”

That one was almost impressive. A line so stupid it survives every decade.

At 2:07 a.m. he sent a text.

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