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

after the Fourth because nobody wants to climb a ladder in that heat.

Then they were gone.

Behind me, the sign above the door swung once in the breeze.

Willa Jean’s Bakery. Established 1987.

Raymond had painted those letters himself on a Sunday afternoon. Took him nearly five hours with a narrow brush because he said a name deserved patience. The paint continue reading …