While I Was at Lunch With My Daughter My Neighbor Called and Asked Why Someone Was Loading Boxes From My House

rehearsal into words. Something in her face tightened and was quickly released. Something in his face went briefly, involuntarily wrong.

And then Derek laughed.

It was a short sound, more like a bark than actual laughter, and he caught himself within a second and turned it into a cough, pounding his chest with a closed fist and shaking his head apologetically.continue reading …