I Came Home From A Double Shift And My Family Said They Voted About My Daughter Until I Said One Thing

of restraint I had, which was not much. Susan opened it a few inches, the guarded inches that say I can close this whenever I choose.

“Where’s Kora?”

Susan’s eyes moved over me. Scrubs, messy hair, the look of someone running on the wrong side of empty. She did not soften.

“She’s here,” she said.

Relief hit fast. Then she added: “And you’re not getting continue reading …