I Bought An Old Couch At A Garage Sale — Three Days Later, Someone Tried To Break Into My Apartment Over It

The old man should have scared me away the moment he touched my wrist.

But I was twenty-six, broke, exhausted, and standing inside an almost empty apartment that echoed every time I walked across the floor.

Loneliness makes people ignore warning signs.

And that couch?

It looked like the kind of furniture people in expensive apartments inherited from wealthy continue reading …