I Left Before They Got Home

lint trap in the dryer. “You’re not my mother, stop acting like a psycho.”

Like Daniel hearing it from the next room and saying only, “Let’s all calm down.”

Like the time a bracelet of mine went missing and I later found it in Chloe’s bathroom drawer underneath a crushed tube of mascara.

I said nothing then too.

Not because I was weak. Because I was measuring.continue reading …