I Let My Stepdaughter Think She’d Taken Over My House

the porch.

Turned back once, maybe to say something smart or sad or sorry enough.

I shut the door before he found the words.

The new deadbolt slid home smooth as butter.

If this one stayed with you, send it to somebody who’ll get it. Sometimes the quiet parts tell you everything.

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