My Mom Called Asking When I Was Coming Back for the Baby Until I Realized Mine Was Already With Me

dropped her off. You said you were exhausted. You said you needed a few hours. I told you to go home and sleep. I put her in the living room so I could hear her if she woke up, and then you never came back.”

Every hair on my arms rose.

“Mom,” I said, louder now. “Lily is here. She’s been here all night.”

The silence that followed was the wrong kind of continue reading …