My Parents Refused to Help Me Through College but Funded My Sister Until Years Later at Her Wedding Everything Changed

was empty. The radio played something I didn’t choose. The city appeared in the distance eventually, its lights doing what city lights do on a clear night, which is make the darkness around them feel manageable rather than absolute.

I had signed my name in a strip mall nine years ago with two plastic bins in my car and the specific calm of someone who continue reading …