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

things without my noticing the distance between them.

The drawing from Angela’s daughter stays framed on the wall beside those words.

A purple house. A yellow sun. Three figures safe.

That is what I keep. Not the deed. Not the court order. The drawing. Because it is the only record from the whole disaster that reminds me why the paperwork mattered in continue reading …