The Cashier Warned Me Not To Go To The Party And Minutes Later I Discovered The Plan They Had For Me

cut a slice and put it on a plate and sat at her kitchen table in the house she had lived in for twenty-two years and she ate it. It was good. The cream cheese frosting was the right consistency and the cake itself had the density that good carrot cake has, the kind that does not apologize for what it is.

She thought about Richard. About what he would continue reading …