I Was Lifting Our Heavy Mattress to Search for an Earring I Had Dropped Behind the Bedframe – I Expected to Find Some Dust, but What Was Carefully Taped Beneath His Side of the Mattress Made Me Slowly Sit Down on the Uncovered Floor

it flat.

I could choose the third option.

I picked up my earring, threaded it into my earlobe, and looked at myself in the mirror.

“You are going to smile,” I told the woman staring back. “You are going to sit through this dinner. And then you are going to find out who Brenda is.”

My reflection nodded once, obediently.

I walked down the stairs slowly, one continue reading …