I Left the Retirement Home That Night. Under Fluorescent Hospital Lights, Everything Changed

amused by.

My phone buzzed. Vincent.

I looked out the window at the small flag outside the building’s office and felt the quiet that settles in a person when the waiting they have been doing for a long time is finally, completely, over.

“When are you coming back?” Vincent asked, without preamble.

“Never,” I said.

There was a pause in which I could hear continue reading …