My Father Tried to Force Me to Sell the House Until Police Walked In and Said My Rank Out Loud

outside the window. A television somewhere down the hall murmured to an empty room. A nurse adjusted my position and asked if I wanted water, and when my hands shook lifting the cup, she held it with me without making anything of it.

Ellison appeared in the doorway around nine, hat tucked under his arm. He had the look of a man who had learned how to continue reading …