My In Laws Demanded My Money At Dawn And I Responded In A Way They Did Not Expect

and it sat now in the corner of my new kitchen beside the window where the light came in, and every morning when I passed it I thought of my mother’s hands sanding the wood smooth, her voice telling me that the best things in life are the ones other people overlooked because they could not see past the surface.

Sometimes, even now, I think about that continue reading …