My Husband Cut Our Grocery Budget to Eighty Dollars Until His Phone Connected to the Tablet

at my daughter’s shoes. The white rubber had split near the toe. She had colored the crack with a purple marker so the other children would think it was part of the design. No, I said. He’ll have to find another way home.

I turned off the stove and opened the blue cabinet above the refrigerator. That was where I kept birth certificates, tax records,continue reading …