My Family Planned To Move In Until I Asked For Eight Hundred Sixty Thousand

photographs of my apartment pulled from the real estate listing website and bragging that she had finally decided which bedroom would be hers. They had assigned rooms. They had moved in inside their heads. They had not said a single word to me.

I thanked Linda, and after we hung up I sat in my apartment for a long time listening to the rain on the window.continue reading …