I Came Home After Two Weeks Away And My Daughter In Law Asked What I Was Doing In The House I Bought With My Own Money

around the damage others do and calls it love.

I was done reaching.

He walked out. Carol and I heard the car door and then the engine and then the sound fading down the street until there was nothing.

The silence that followed was the cleanest silence I have ever sat inside.

We cleaned the room they had used that afternoon, Carol and I, working methodically continue reading …