I Canceled the Money While They Were Still Watching the Ball Drop

more than my grocery budget for a month. Her eyes were red. She smelled like expensive perfume laid over cigarette smoke.

For a second she just stood there looking around my apartment like she’d never really seen it before.

“You’ve got a nice place,” she said.

I said, “Why are you here?”

She sat on the edge of my couch and started crying.

Real tears this continue reading …