I Paid For The Whole Family Vacation Until My Son Said I Was Not Invited

like the only illumination in the world, long enough for the refrigerator’s hum to become something I was aware of in the way you become aware of a sound only in deep silence. The word simpler turned itself over in my mind with the specific quality of words that have been chosen carefully, not carelessly. Simpler meant they had thought about it. Simpler continue reading …