I Came Home From Teaching All Day to Find a Lock on My Own Pantry

she looked at Carol as if Carol were the one who’d arrived uninvited. Carol drank her coffee quickly and left and afterward Clare told me, without looking up from her phone, that I should give her advance notice when my friends planned to visit so she didn’t have to interrupt her schedule.

Her schedule. In my living room.

Little by little, without any continue reading …