After Returning a Lost Wallet From My Mechanic Shop a Sheriff Came Looking for Me

that qualifies as food before school rather than the cereal I would default to without her regulatory presence. She is the reason I have not simply collapsed under the weight of the thing, and I tell her so regularly and she waves it off every time, which is its own form of grace.

I work twelve-hour days most weeks. The money is enough to keep the four continue reading …