At My 20 Year Reunion, My Former Bully Laughed Until Her Husband Read My Name

you to flinch and feel, instead of the old fear, something clear and settled and entirely your own.

I started the car.

The city moved around me on all sides as I drove, all those lit windows, all those people building their lives in parallel, all those unfinished stories running alongside mine.

The boy in the cafeteria was gone.

The man driving home had continue reading …