She Said She Came to Take Her Children Back

except for signatures.

No return address on three of them.

Same postmark town Chloe had been living in at the time.

My mother had known where she was.

Maybe not every year. But enough.

And she never told the kids.

Not once.

The Hearing

The custody hearing was set for a Tuesday in February.

Gray morning. Wet sidewalks. Courtroom too cold. The kind of fluorescent continue reading …