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

because I had failed but because I had been silenced. She told me she had spent months trying to find me and my parents had told her I had moved to a specialized facility, which is how I learned, five years late, that the silence I had understood as abandonment had been engineered.

Then she told me what we were going to do.

The two years that followed continue reading …