After My Husband Forced His Sick Father Out, I Cared For Him Alone While Working Two Jobs

itself, at what the room had become. The guest bedroom that used to smell like linen and the lavender sachets I kept in the dresser now smelled like antiseptic and the faintly metallic undertone of medication that had seeped into the curtains, the carpet, the wallpaper. You could wash the sheets every day and the smell would still be there by evening,continue reading …