The Morning After My Sister’s Funeral Her Boss Called Me With a Warning Not to Tell My Family

let’s talk privately. Don’t tell them. Said with the specific weight of someone who has already decided that certain people in the gathering are a different category from the person he is speaking to.

I thought about Megan. Practical, methodical, allergic to drama, constitutionally incapable of making anything more complicated than it needed to be. continue reading …