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

the way a neighbor down the street had shown me, when Ava appeared at the back door.

“Mom, I made something for the house.”

She held up a small watercolor painting, done on the heavy paper she kept in her art drawer. A house with a red door and yellow windows and a garden in front with round red dots she had labeled, in careful letters, TOMATOS. Two continue reading …