My Father In Law Said Nobody Invited Me Until Someone Pulled Into The Driveway

in the ordinary sense. It was the reckoning of a man confronting the distance between the world he had been living in and the world that had actually been there all along.

I put my hand on his back.

There was nothing to say that would make it smaller or easier to hold, so I said nothing, and we sat there on the shoulder of the Arizona highway until Derek continue reading …