My Son Left Me Alone at the Bakery Until the Business Account Was Suddenly Locked

watched the first customers come in stamping the cold off their boots.

Life rarely gives you a clean ending. Mostly it gives you another morning. And another.

I still think about that phone call sometimes. His panic. Marissa’s voice behind him. Elaine surely standing near enough to hear every word. The cabin porch and the lake water and the useless coolers continue reading …