My Family Chose My Sister’s Baby Shower Over My Wedding and the Next Morning They Wouldn’t Stop Calling Me

by love. Family is everything.

She had posted it while I was saying my vows.

That night, back in the studio, Marcus and I lay on the old futon with the windows open and the sound of crickets coming in like something continuous and indifferent and exactly what the room needed. He had taken lavender from the chairs and put it in jars around the apartment.continue reading …