I Traveled Across the Country to See My Son but He Told Me to Wait Outside Like a Stranger

top of my recent calls for twenty years regardless of how often the calls actually happened. I looked at his name for a long moment. Then I locked the screen and put the phone away and picked up my suitcase.

I walked down the porch steps.

No one came to the door. No one called my name from a window. The music continued. I walked down the driveway and continue reading …