My Husband Left Me For A Younger Woman And Told Me To Be Gone Before He Returned

compression. You stop noticing how small you have made yourself until you have an entire dark night to sit still and measure it.

I thought about my father.

He had died six years ago, quietly, the way he had lived, without inconveniencing anyone more than was necessary, without requiring elaborate management in the end. But before he went, when his mind continue reading …