My Five Year Old Asked About A Man Who Visits At Night And I Set Up A Camera

with Ellie’s weight warm and small against my side, three years later, I was beginning to understand what I had not let myself understand at the time. That leaving had required other people to be left too. That the burning had not been surgical.

Near dawn, I picked up my phone and called Jake.

He answered on the third ring with the thick, confused voice continue reading …