At My Father’s Ceremony They Said I Could Not Do Anything Right Until I Walked In And Smiled

engine trouble and where it is simply the sound of something large continuing to function.

I parked and sat for a moment before going inside.

The ceremony in that veterans’ hall would be one version of the story. The story people told would be about rank and revelation and the comeuppance of a woman who had spoken carelessly about someone she did not continue reading …