My Sister Got a New Car While I Got a Bus Pass but My 18th Birthday Changed Everything

by how your parents treat you and start being surprised that you were ever surprised at all. I rinsed, spit, turned off the light, and walked to my room past the leaning bookshelf and the sky-blue walls and the birthday card from two years ago that I had never been able to throw away, its gold foil catching the light from the hallway like a small irony continue reading …