I Arrived For Sunday Dinner At My Daughter’s House

kid who stole courthouse mints from my desk, “Tell her she did the hard part.”

I said I would.

At the hospital, the x-rays showed a bad sprain, a partial ligament tear, and an older rib bruise that had already started fading yellow around the edges.

Older.

I did not ask when.

Not there.

Not while she sat in a paper gown under bad fluorescent lights chewing continue reading …