My Mom Announced They Sold My House and Split the Money Because I Was Never There

of that house needed to become safe again, and if not for me, then for someone.

When I told Crawford, he looked at me for a long moment. “You don’t have to do that.”

“I know.”

“Then why?”

I thought about Angela. About the purple crayon. About my mother’s text at 2:07 a.m.

“Because they turned my house into a weapon,” I said. “I want the last word to be continue reading …