I Was Holding My Son’s T-Shirt When His Teacher Called And Said He Had Left Something Behind

and the elaborate organizational systems he invented and abandoned on a regular basis. He found the loose tile at the base, the one that had always rocked slightly when you stepped on it and that Owen had apparently decided was a useful feature rather than a flaw.

He worked it up with a butter knife from the kitchen. Beneath it, in the shallow space continue reading …