Minnesota Teachers Gathered to Review a Twelve Thousand Dollar School Board Decision

refrigerator humming its steady, familiar song in the corner.

I opened the planner to the margin where I had written the twenty-digit authorization number.

“Tomorrow,” I said to the empty room.

I turned off the kitchen light and walked down the hallway, the floorboards cold beneath my socks.

The wind rattled the bedroom window, a loose branch scraping continue reading …