The Police Showed Up Before My Husband Could

a canvas drop cloth behind paint cans and an old pressure washer, sat three plastic storage bins I had never seen.

I only noticed them because Ruth pulled the cloth aside to make room near an outlet for her portable scanner.

She looked at the bins.

I looked at the bins.

“What are those?” she asked.

“I don’t know.”

They were labeled in black marker.

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