“This can’t be for fucking real right now…” you said to yourself. You had seen it in your peripheral vision as you were washing your hands. It was late. You hadn’t been able to fall asleep right away, David on the other hand, had been out for at least an hour. You had gotten up to use the bathroom and when you were washing up, you caught it out of the corner of your eye. The flash of light was right there in the mirror… you would have sworn it before but now, turning around and catching it...

“Hey… excuse me? Yes, Yeah… Hi…” you call up to the woman parking her car in your yard again. This is the first time that you’ve actually been able to see who the person was. Every other time you’d come out to a car (one of many) that had been parked in your yard… and when you’d walk over to one of the neighboring houses (you were never sure which car belonged to whom in which house) to politely ask them to move, no one would ever answer the doors. It wasn’t that you took issue per se’ with...

“Hey… what’s going on?” You were shocked to find a strange man standing in your husband’s office. He had let himself in, walked through the foyer, up the steep steps and was now standing right at the bottom of the staircase on the floor you were mopping. All this in the time it had taken you to dump a pail of dirty water into the sink, replenish it with clean water and head back downstairs. “You opening a church or something?” He asks not answering your question. “Uh… no… we live here.” “Oh....