At My Mom’s Birthday They Said I Didn’t Belong So I Stayed Quiet and By Morning Everything Had Changed

not need to be convinced to return. They return because returning is what they do, season after season, regardless of what happened to the ground above them while they were gone.

It is a Tuesday evening as I write this. The shop is closed. The lights downstairs are off. I am sitting at the small table in my apartment with a cup of tea, the lamp casting continue reading …