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

were still dimming behind me, the lake reflecting a fractured version of the building in gold and shadow, the whole elegant construction broken apart on the water’s surface and reassembled wrong, which felt like the correct image for the evening.

The next morning arrived with the specific chaos of a story that has gotten out while people were still continue reading …