At My Father’s Funeral My Sister Told Me to Stay Away From the Cabin I Inherited, So I Drove There Anyway

in the army when you are trying not to think about something: all surface and no depth. Training schedules, supply checks, meetings that required my body to be present and my mind to be somewhere manageable. But Megan’s face was there in the dark behind my eyes every night, and the silence I kept hearing was my mother’s.

A text arrived from Megan one continue reading …