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

about me had come apart in public, not because I had dismantled it, but because it had been built on materials that could not hold weight indefinitely.

I had walked into a room full of ghosts and remained standing.

Evan drove us home in the quiet. Liam fell asleep within minutes, one sticky hand wrapped around a party favor from the centerpiece, his continue reading …