I Left Before They Got Home

what to say. Because I wanted, very badly, to say the cruelest possible thing and make it sting forever.

I didn’t.

I left facts instead.

Facts can sit with a person longer.

At 7:11, I set the envelope in the middle of the table and left the porch light on.

Then I drove to a Residence Inn near Englewood where Susan had told me not to use my usual credit continue reading …