My Mother Told Me To Give Up My Room Until I Left Quietly

the car disappear down the street. She lights up a room, doesn’t she, she said, and turned to look at Sophia in her diner apron preparing to leave for the lunch rush. Her smile faded. You’re so different, she said. You’re just so serious.

Sophia swallowed the sharp thing that sentence left in her chest and went to work.

She understood, on some level continue reading …