An Elderly Woman Warned Me Not To Touch The Snow—The Next Morning, I Understood Why

had stopped feeling like comfort and started feeling like a rut. Maybe it was gradual. Maybe it happened all at once and I just didn’t notice because I was too busy packing containers and sweeping floors to look up and see that the man I was doing it for had stopped seeing me years ago.

I’d picked up my bags and was heading for the door when I felt continue reading …