At My Grandfather’s Will Reading My Father Said I Would Get Nothing

the chair beside him, completely at ease.

“She hasn’t even been around,” he said, louder this time, not bothering to lower his voice.

Someone behind him chuckled.

Another voice added, “He wouldn’t leave something like that to someone who disappeared.”

The word disappeared lingered in the air.

As if absence had erased everything that came before it.

I didn’t continue reading …