I Refused to Give My Card to His Sister and Breakfast Turned Into Something I Didn’t Expect

and concessions and explanations to myself about why things were the way they were. I thought about standing at the bottom of the stairs with my tote bag while Officer Daniels stood in the living room, and the feeling I had in that moment, which was not triumph and was not entirely calm either, but was something I recognized as myself being present continue reading …