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

bed with the phone in my hands.

Three hours and forty minutes.

I uploaded it to the cloud. I sent a copy to Patrick’s email with the subject line: additional evidence.

Then I lay down, and for the first time in months, I slept without waking.

The next morning I waited for them to appear. Clare came into the kitchen just after eleven, her hair unwashed,continue reading …