I Came Home Seven Months Pregnant Until I Found Another Woman Beside Our Bed

sending Patricia home when she overstepped. She had been polite for three years, polite enough to sit through dinners where Vanessa’s name slipped into old stories, polite enough to let Patricia correct the nursery curtains, and she was done confusing graciousness with silence.

One afternoon Patricia arrived with a covered dish she hadn’t cooked and continue reading …