I Let My Mother Think She’d Secured My Sister’s Wedding

Depends how hard people want to fight.”

She folded the papers closed and handed them back.

“Grandma thought you wouldn’t do anything.”

“I know.”

A beat.

Then Emma said, “She always thinks people will just get tired and give her what she wants.”

Sixteen, and dead right.

The Dinner I Wasn’t Invited To

Friday night my mother had one of her little family dinners.continue reading …