My Mother In Law Claimed My New Apartment Until I Took The Trash Out

to make the story of that summer entirely about my mother in law’s home invasion. We sat on my reclaimed cream throw pillows, since I’d donated the Bless This Home monstrosities to a church rummage sale the week after Lorraine left, and Audrey asked me, half joking, whether I regretted not screaming at Lorraine the way she certainly would have.

I thought continue reading …