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PART 3   I stared at the hospital bracelet in the lunchbox until the letters of my own name blurred.

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around a fence.

But now Walter Reeves sat across from me, the man I had stepped around in the alley for most of my childhood, and he was telling me the fence had never been where I thought it was.

“You’re lying,” I said.

My voice came out cold.

Walter nodded as if he had expected those words.

“I wish I was.”

“My mother would have told me.”

“She wanted to.continue reading …

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