Two Plane Tickets to Savannah and the Sixty Day Marriage Agreement

downtown would require a deposit I had saved in my personal account, but the cost of staying in this silence felt much higher.

I unscrewed the cap of my pen, my fingers steady despite the cold.

I wrote the date at the top of the first page, followed by two words that felt like a bridge being crossed.

The scratch of my pen in the blue notebook was the continue reading …