I left my wife outside in the freezing cold because my sister yelled, “That woman is using you”; when I opened the balcony door I found a fingerprint, a cigarette butt and an unfinished letter, but what destroyed me the most was knowing who those $8,000 were really for.

have to do it out of guilt,” she murmured.

“It’s not your fault,” he said. “It’s because this house is no longer a home for you.”

They moved to a small house in Kalamazoo, near a street where the mornings smelled of coffee, freshly baked bread, and damp mud after the rain. Nora brought her plants, while Liam brought only a few things, and the rest they continue reading …