She refuses to ring the doorbell, and so she stands there, scalloped-potato offering balanced awkward against her hip like an uncooperative toddler as she digs in her purse for […]

  She is small in her movements, stilted somehow, as though this portion of her life is a series of badly-drawn flip-book pages, run sloppily against the thumb of the […]

  You walk downstairs and call people you don’t know well enough to confide in until one of them answers the phone. No one talks on the phone anymore. It […]