My Mother in Law Tried to Charge Me Rent Until I Took Them to My Own Apartment

was mirrored on three walls. I had never specifically thought about that detail before, but standing in my kitchen watching the feed, I understood what those mirrors meant for the next forty seconds. They would have to look at themselves. Not at me, not at the building, not at their collective certainty about what they were going to find. At themselves,continue reading …