My Children Came Back to the Hospital Pretending to Care but My Bed Was Already Empty

part of the country in the afternoon, coming in low and golden across the hills in a way that makes the interior of a room feel suddenly very interior.

They left before dinner.

Not dramatically, not with slammed doors or final pronouncements. Diego said he needed time to think. Graciela said she understood that they had hurt us. I did not respond to continue reading …