I Came Home to an Empty RV Pad and Security Footage I Was Not Prepared For

a photograph of Leo and me at a birthday party from maybe twenty years earlier. He was six or seven, I was a few years older, and we were both laughing at something outside the frame of the picture with the open, unconsidered laughter of children who have not yet learned to perform their feelings for an audience. I held the photograph for a while.continue reading …