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

the walls a deep, quiet green. Tamika helped me move in bookshelves and a secondhand desk with good bones. I bought a reading chair in caramel leather after talking myself in and out of the expense for three weeks. I framed three photographs in a row: my grandfather in his Navy uniform, Nana Ruth at twenty-two in cat-eye glasses, and a picture of me continue reading …