I Couldn’t Remember Hearing Anyone Come Back Upstairs

me, her mouth twitched, just once, like she wanted to say something and couldn’t get it working.

Then they put her in the back of a cruiser.

Not handcuffed.

Still.

That image sat in my brain and stayed there.

Howard Finch

By 2:15 a.m. I was in an interview room at the county sheriff’s office with a paper cup of water I couldn’t hold steady and a blanket continue reading …