Within the abandoned two-story house in Allsbrook, South Carolina is the forgotten basement room where the light bulb was left on
A few miles outside of a small town in the English countryside named Dursley, the Cotswold way passed through a cow farm and then jutted upwards
One of the men was older, early-sixties perhaps, ex-FBI, so fit that when he wore polo shirts, which he usually did
The phone call with the social worker is brief. “I can’t,” I say.
She was told to deliver to him a son. And so it was to become in the young wife’s final year
Even before the stay-at-home order that spring, Jen’s latest pregnancy had threatened to lock her down
The funeral was small, brief, driven by the pandemic although Hank was not one of its victims
That morning, although the elevator was not in use, Ah Po took the stairs up to 503. She was allowed to take the elevator, no one said she couldn’t.
We are currently serving other patients, thank you for calling.
Jeremy hadn’t texted me in six days. At the end of our last date he dropped me off on the doorstep
