She Said She Came to Take Her Children Back

so stupid they didn’t fit inside the room.

Behind me, a chair scraped the floor.

Leo had stood up.

He was twenty now, broad-shouldered, quiet like always, and when he came into the hallway he did that thing he’d done since he was eight, planting himself between the younger kids and whatever looked dangerous.

Sophie stepped in from the porch with her guitar continue reading …