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

loyalty and spend it and leave you with nothing and call that an arrangement.

What he had left me, in the end, was the means to remember who I was before the arrangement, and the distance from the middle of it to finally see it clearly.

I thought about Curtis saying useless in front of thirty people, and about how that word had landed, and how I had continue reading …