I Landed to Find My Sister Had Sold the House

at me, then back down.

On the tape, Grandma repeated them.

“Your sister signs lazy.”

The room changed shape.

I can’t explain that better than that. It just did.

Rachel’s fingers twitched against her purse. Tiny motion. Guilty people’s bodies leak before their mouths do.

Grandma again: “I wrote it down after they left because wicked people count on old women continue reading …