Just the smell of dumpsters in the alley and the sudden weight of rent due in ten days.
I Went Back
I didn’t mean to.
But I drove to her street again.
Knocked.
No answer.
My stomach dropped.
I pushed the door open.
She was still in the recliner.
Gray. Pale. Smaller somehow.
“I turned the heat back down,” she whispered. “The bill scares me.”
She’d eaten half a banana.
Half.
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