My Parents Canceled My Graduation for My Sister Until Months Later They Saw Me on the News

mashed potatoes, the morning in the rain when I put my bags in her car and let myself believe the door was real.

“Yes,” I said. “I think I am.”

Downstairs, I could hear Amber laughing at something my mother said. My father’s voice followed, quieter than I remembered it, shaped differently around the edges. Not fixed. Nothing was fixed, not in the way continue reading …