Wearing an Emerald Green Dress on My Birthday Cost Me My Husband

through the autumn dusk and bathing my legs in yellow light.

He shifted the car into reverse, the reverse lights casting a stark white glow onto the brick wall behind the parking spaces. The tires crunched slowly on the gravel as he backed out of the slot.

I did not turn around to watch him pull out of the driveway. My mother’s pearl continue reading …