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

only I could hear, “The listing’s dead. The room’s empty.”

I nodded.

Then we stood shoulder to shoulder watching the kids fight over batteries.

He said, “I don’t know what happens next.”

“You list in January. You cut what you can. You stop borrowing money to pretend you’re not borrowing money.”

He looked down.

“She won’t like hearing that.”

“She doesn’t have continue reading …