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

I could not fully read, something between apology and the absence of apology, the face of someone who has made a decision that was not theirs to make and knows it and would make it again.

“I do not have much time left,” he said.

The porch went quiet.

He said it with the flatness of a man who has had the necessary appointments, who has heard the relevant continue reading …