I Let My Family Throw Me Out in Hawaii

desk with too many bags and not enough power.

My father saw me first.

We looked at each other across the marble floor.

He seemed about to speak.

I kept walking past him, through the open doors, into the heat and the salt and the glare coming off the water.

Behind me I heard my mother say, sharp and brittle, “Charlotte.”

I didn’t turn.

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