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

picked up every nail and scrap of lumber, and packed their equipment with the same lack of drama with which they had arrived. When they drove away, there was nothing left but flat ground and open sky and the faint ghost of a foundation outline if you knew exactly where to look.

I stood on the empty lot for a few minutes. Just stood there in the quiet continue reading …