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

had arrived easily, the way things arrive easily for people who are doing better than expected.

It had not arrived easily.

The house near Devils Lake was small and imperfect: a kitchen that still had the previous owner’s linoleum, a porch that needed new boards in the northwest corner, a bathroom faucet that dripped if you didn’t turn it all the way continue reading …