I Bought A Plane Ticket To Surprise My Pilot Husband On Our Anniversary

the dry pine needles from the back door threshold. The kitchen looked different without the blue folder on the counter or the tea mugs we used to leave out in the mornings.

The red silk dress, the one that had cost two hundred ten dollars at the airport boutique, lay neatly folded over the banister by the stairs. I had kept it out of the boxes, refusing continue reading …