My Parents Told Us To Get Lost In The Snow Until My Phone Started Ringing

came in, and then we were outside and the door closed and the lock clicked, and Mia was crying into my neck and the snow was immediate and serious and the windows of my parents’ house were dark.

I buckled her into the car with hands that would not steady. I started the engine and drove toward a destination I had not decided on because there was no destination,continue reading …