THEY LOCKED YOU AWAY SO YOUR SISTER COULD MARRY TH…

Some things are worth mending. Others must be carried away. F.M.

You read it four times before hiding it inside your mattress.

Your mother finds it by afternoon.

Of course she does.

Doña Carmela stands in the pantry chamber with the note between two fingers, smiling in a way that empties your stomach.

“So now he writes poetry to you.”

You reach for it.

She continue reading …