My Sister Said I Didn’t Count and Seated Me by the Trash at Her Wedding So I Left a Small Silver Gift on the Present Table

crowd makes when it collectively understands that something irreversible has happened. The music thinned and faltered and stopped. A second sound followed, lower and more ragged, the sound of a voice that has lost its composure because its composure has just been publicly removed.

I sat and watched the windows.

From what I put together later, from the continue reading …