After I Paid Off My House My Sister Showed Up With Boxes and My Parents Said It Was Only Fair to Share

family is everything. A whitewashed coffee table with fake distress marks. At the top of the board, in Colleen’s handwriting: For when we finally make the place ours.

Ours.

There are words that should not have the power to knock the air from your chest, but sometimes one small word lands harder than a fist. I stared until the screen dimmed in my hand.continue reading …