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

She walked out and did not look back.

In her rearview mirror, briefly, she saw them on the porch. Two figures growing smaller. She turned the corner.

Part Six: The Empty House, Revisited

The corporate apartment was a single bedroom in a building with a security desk and no history. The furniture was generic and impersonal and completely without meaning,continue reading …