MY SISTER ANNOUNCED SHE WAS PREGNANT

house was a low brick ranch on a quiet street two blocks from the water. There were two cars in the driveway and a wreath on the door that still had Christmas pinecones on it even though it was March. The yard had been recently raked. Someone, probably one of the sons, had been keeping things up.

She opened the door herself.

She was thin in the way that continue reading …