She Said She Came to Take Her Children Back

wanted was a sticky table at Dot’s Diner off Route 8, bad coffee for me, hot chocolate for Mia, Noah inhaling three plates like he’d been starved by the justice system, Sophie stealing everyone’s bacon, Leo finally smiling at nothing.

Ordinary.

That’s all any of us had ever tried to keep.

At one point Mia got up to use the restroom and, passing behind continue reading …