They Demanded I Pay My Sister’s Rent Until the Eviction Notice Arrived

in the living room of 74 Edgerton Street, in front of the couch, in the afternoon light that came through the white cotton sheers I’d hung the day before. It looked exactly right.

Ava stood in her new bedroom, a room that had been my grandmother’s guest room and still had the same faded yellow wallpaper with the small blue birds on it, and turned a continue reading …