Two Black SUVs Rolled Into My Aunt’s Backyard

me to somebody she’d raised.

“You were really in danger all this time.”

“Sometimes.”

“And you still came here.”

I almost said of course.

Instead I said, “I wanted burgers.”

That made her laugh once, ugly and wet.

Tyler stood a few feet away, hands on his hips, then not on his hips, then shoved in his pockets. He looked eighteen and about twelve at the same continue reading …