She Said She Came to Take Her Children Back

the sentence she had apparently rehearsed long before arriving.

“I’ve come to take my children home.”

She paused just long enough to glance around the house once more.

“And,” she added, “I want my life back.”

The Part She Thought She Could Skip

For a second I honestly thought I’d heard her wrong.

Not because the words were complicated. Because they were continue reading …