She Said She Came to Take Her Children Back

for pancakes.

Still.

Back at the house, the tomato sauce smell had gone a little sweet from sitting too long. Noah turned the stove off. Sophie put her guitar back on the porch. Mia left the hallway light on before sunset out of habit and maybe irony. Leo gathered the mail from the front step.

One envelope was from the architecture school.

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