My Boyfriend Gave Me An Ultimatum Until He Forgot Whose Name Was On The Lease

up my duffel. “For me, it is.”

Then I turned and walked out into the cold.

The air hit like truth. One of those bright winter mornings when the sky over Chicago looks almost metallic, the lake wind slicing clean between the buildings. I stood on the sidewalk and looked up at the glass tower where I had spent two years trying to make something work that continue reading …