My Brother Was Believed Dead for Eight Years Until I Found Him Working at a 7-Eleven

Mom keeps telling her that Elena is fine.

Rebecca and my mother are not friends, exactly. Life is not that tidy. But they are two women who survived different versions of the same man, and some days that turns out to be its own kind of understanding.

As for me, I still stop at that convenience store once in a while. Not often. Just enough to stand in continue reading …