The Night He Told Me to Leave, He Forgot Whose Name Was on Everything

pages listing every item removed—description, original purchase date, acquisition cost, current asset value.

From the forty-five-thousand-dollar antique rug to the twenty-dollar smart light bulbs in the closets.

Not just a furniture list. A receipt for five years of my unacknowledged labor.

I tore off a strip of blue painter’s tape and secured the envelope continue reading …