My Parents Invited 20 Guests To My Lake House Until I Refused To Fill The Fridge

trees outside, calm and official: unauthorized occupants detected, authorities have been notified.

My mother turned to the window. For the first time, I saw something other than certainty in her face. My father told me to turn it off. I told him I couldn’t.

That was not true. I could have. I didn’t.

Because something had moved past the point of being continue reading …