I Left Before They Got Home

the receipt from a downtown jeweler for Erin’s ring.

Sold six months earlier.

Three thousand two hundred dollars.

Less than half what it was worth.

I know because I’d had it appraised, quietly, after finding it gone.

The Calls After

Daniel left nine voice mails that night.

The first three were pure rage.

How dare you lock me out of my own house.

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