For 4 years my parents told everyone I “disappeared” after I stopped sending money home. Then they sent my brother to track me down.

chin.

My grandmother June’s face from every old Dayton family photograph, suddenly three feet tall and asking who was at the door.

Danny made a sound like the air had been knocked out of him.

Then his eyes moved past her.

Down the hallway.

Toward the wall I barely noticed anymore.

Caleb’s photograph, funeral ribbon still folded over one corner.

The ultrasound framed beside it.

A photo Dena had taken of me eight months pregnant, standing alone in front of a half-painted blue door with a roller in my hand.