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

and absurdity come through the same door more often than anyone admits.

They were not dry, I said.

No, he said. They weren’t.

Then he left.

I did not forgive him that day. But I believed he had finally started telling the truth, and that was something.

Not enough. But something.

The seasons turned. The courthouse maples went red. The high school lost every continue reading …