They Threw Me Out on Graduation Night and Did Not Expect to See Me Again

and told me to pack my things, told me not to expect them to catch me when I fell, told me I would not be coming back.

I looked at Grace before I turned to go.

She looked devastated, yes. But underneath the devastation there was something else, something small and complicated and entirely human. The flicker of a person who has just glimpsed her own reflection continue reading …