She Sent Her Mother One Cent Until Police Found Her Name

like I was a bank account with a pulse.

My name is Renata Morales.

For most of my life, I believed being the strong one was a compliment.

My mother said it whenever something was taken from me and handed to Chloe. She said it the way you say a word so many times it stops meaning anything, but she had a specific inflection for it, a kind of mild satisfaction,continue reading …