She Came Home After Twenty Years Of Service And Was Turned Away But By Nightfall Everything Changed

people who wore them were still people, and people want to be seen by the ones they love, and when the seeing does not come, the absence of it sits in the chest like a stone that no amount of ceremony can fully dissolve.

I turned off the light. The room went dark except for the faint glow of the parking lot lamp through the window. Somewhere in a house continue reading …