They Told Me I Could Only Take One Dog Home Until I Saw What Happened When They Tried to Separate Them

the silence after her son left for college. This silence had shape. It had the specific shape of absence, of a space recently occupied by something very large.

Beans searched the house for three days. He checked every room with methodical grief, returning repeatedly to Harold’s blanket beside the fireplace, circling, lying down, rising, circling again.continue reading …