They Said I Was A Burden And Asked Me To Leave Then I Bought The Building They Rented

The photo album from my nightstand. Robert’s watch. The quilt my mother made. Everything else—the furniture I’d brought when I moved in, the kitchen supplies, the small television—I left behind. Carrying it out would have taken time, and time meant conversation, and conversation meant Amanda would try to renegotiate the terms of my departure into something continue reading …