She Sat Me by the Kitchen at My Son’s Wedding — So I Burned It All Down With One Phone Call

over and turned on the bedside lamp. The sudden light stung my eyes, made me blink rapidly.

I walked to the bathroom and looked at myself in the mirror above the sink.

The reflection startled me.

Mascara smudged beneath my eyes in dark raccoon circles.

The soft lines around my mouth had hardened into something unfamiliar, something that looked like my continue reading …