pressed send.
She responded almost immediately.
We didn’t mean literally.
I laughed out loud.
That sentence was going to become my favorite.
I wrote back:
You should be more careful with words when you say them to someone who listens.
Then I put the phone down.
THE HOUSE
Two days later, my parents received a letter.
The house had been sold.
They had thirty days to vacate.
Mom called me seventeen times.
I didn’t answer.
Dad called nine.
I didn’t answer.
Then Madison called.
I answered.
“What have you done?”
