Demolition Before the Bloom

that made me feel sick.

I pulled out my calculator, the old kind with a paper roll that prints out, and added everything up.

$185,000, give or take a few thousand for cash I couldn’t prove, dinners I’d paid for, smaller helps that didn’t need checks.

$185,000.

And I’d been uninvited from Thanksgiving.

I opened the house papers again, reading every word continue reading …