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

window.”

We hung it with a small piece of tape, and it stayed there all winter and into the following spring, slightly curled at one corner, the tomatoes bright and round, the two figures reaching.

I thought sometimes, looking at it while I made dinner or washed dishes in the evening, about the afternoon I had stood in my own living room with blood on continue reading …