My Family Had Me Thrown Out of My Own House

of their perfect night had been hauled away except for tire tracks in the frozen grass and one white fake rose caught in the hedge.

I took the folder inside.

Fed every page through the shredder one by one.

Not because Caleb told me to. He’d already scanned what mattered.

I just wanted to hear the machine chew through it.

That night, after I reset every continue reading …