I Bought My Dream House and Invited My Family but No One Showed Up and Later My Dad Sent a Message

to you but the particular silence of a room that has been prepared for people who have decided not to arrive. The balloons spelling HOME had started to lose air, the E sagging lower than the rest. I had chosen that word carefully, hung those balloons because the house was not just a house but the thing that house meant: stability, permanence, a place continue reading …