My Husband Took The Only Car Out Of A Wildfire Evacuation Zone With His Mother And His Mistress Inside. I Was Six Months Pregnant, Standing In The Smoke, Begging Him Not To Leave Me

with the documents he believed the fire had destroyed.

Months later, I returned to the Pine Ridge area with June.

Not to the cabin.

There was nothing left of it.

I drove only as far as the lower road, where fresh green plants had begun breaking through the burned earth.

I parked at a clearing overlooking the hills and held June on my hip.

She had grown stronger.continue reading …