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

reading and not expecting anything in particular. He sounded more direct than usual, more settled, and he said pick a weekend, we’ll make it work. Something in the way he said it was different from the versions I had been collecting for years. Less like an aspiration and more like a decision. I picked the weekend before I had time to overthink it. continue reading …