Month: May 2023

It’s a very gray day, like a forty’s black-and-white movie.   I’m sitting alone in the back seat of Bennet’s large gray sedan, on the left side with my nose sometimes touching the cold glass fogged with my breath looking out through streaked lines of rain but not seeing anything but gray.  Everything is gray. The […]

Without any notice, Aunt Ethel had called me into the kitchen, sat down at the table with me, and in a very adult and direct way explained, “David you know your mother’s been sick, and that’s why you’ve been living with us for a while.   She has asked to see you.  She is very ill, […]