I Arrived At My Sister’s Wedding And She Tried To Hide Me

his sleeve. “Mike.”

He pulled free.

No one in our family had called him Mike except my mother when she was angry. Hearing it in church at her age sounded mean and teenage at the same time.

He looked at me for maybe two seconds, then away again.

“The fire,” he said. “It started because I was smoking in the den. I thought I’d put it out. I didn’t.”

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