My Son Told Me Not to Come for Christmas but Two Days Later My Phone Would Not Stop Ringing

Repossession on the vehicle inside thirty days. Foreclosure proceedings on the house inside ninety, maybe less depending on their reserves.”

“I know.”

“Did something happen?”

I thought about the phrase Mexican peasant routine. I thought about the photograph of Maria tucked behind the decorative vase. I thought about sitting on a sofa I had paid for and continue reading …