She Sent Her Mother One Cent Until Police Found Her Name

attached to the inside collar that said Tall S. I do not know whose Tall S it had been before. It smelled like cedar and dry-cleaning plastic, the smell of a garment that had held a great many ceremonies and waited to hold more. I ironed it on the kitchen floor because I did not have an ironing board, and then I hung it back on the chair and went to continue reading …