Three Cups of Morning Coffee at the Oakhaven Diner Changed Everything

chair back against the floorboards.

She followed me without a word, her steps slow and hesitant, as if she were a guest in the house she had grown up in. The kitchen counter was clean, except for the green tea starter kit she had set up on the corner where my old coffee maker used to sit.

I reached past the green tins and took down continue reading …