During a Family Livestream, My Niece Snapped the Bracelet Off My Wrist

different. Not numbness, not grief, but a kind of cold clarity, as though I had stepped back far enough from the situation to see the whole shape of it from above. I had been standing too close for a long time.

“I’m leaving,” I said.

I was not certain I had said it aloud until the words hung there between the music and the sound of cutlery.

Tiffany murmured continue reading …