My Brother Thought I Was Delivering to the Country Club

to close it, grabbed my backpack, and left through the front door carrying a lamp I’d forgotten I was holding. I still had the lamp when I reached my car.

Stupid yellow lamp.

It lived in my first apartment for three years.

The Thing They Never Knew

The ballroom doors were open now, all gold light and clinking glasses.

Waiters moved around the room with continue reading …