MY SISTER GOT $100,000 FOR A MONACO TRIP

nobody had to look at the date on a cake. June 9th. The day my mother almost left them.

I’d thought it was money. I’d thought I was just less interesting than my sister.

My Mother

The phone buzzed again while Rhonda was still talking. I pulled it from my ear to look.

MOM.

The word just sitting there. White letters. Five years.

“She’s calling me,” I said.continue reading …