On Christmas Day My Husband Yelled at an Empty Table Without Knowing What Was Coming

supposed to—”

“I know,” I said. “That’s what you were told. That’s what everyone in this house was told, and none of you thought to question it.”

By eight in the evening the house was empty. Curtis sat alone in the living room with the look of a man who had just understood the full dimensions of a mistake he had been making for thirty years. I stood continue reading …