My Parents Doubled My Rent So My Unemployed Sister Could Move In, So I Moved Out and Took Everything

of myself back.

As we emptied the rooms, the apartment changed.

It became bare again, echoing. The walls looked larger without furniture, emptier without the shape of my life against them. The rooms held the faint outline of where things had been, like ghosts.

We left behind only what had been there when I moved in: the refrigerator and stove that belonged continue reading …