I Was Uninvited From Christmas by the Man Living in My House

didn’t say who I was. Just told him I was checking on a property for an insurance file.”

Reasonable. Gary had done this long enough to know how to sound forgettable.

“What’d he say?”

“He said police were there last Friday night.”

I put my hand flat on the desk.

“For what?”

“Didn’t know. Or didn’t want to say. Said there was yelling in the front yard. Said continue reading …