Divorced by the Hockey Captain
I was sitting at my desk, staring blankly at an empty attendance sheet, my hand resting unconsciously over my belly.
A tiny, soft rustle broke my daze.
Yoshua was standing beside my desk. He hadn't made a sound approaching. He was wearing his oversized navy sweater, his dark, serious eyes tracking my face with that eerie, ancient intuition he always had.
Without a word, he set a freshly colored sheet of paper onto the blotter.
I blinked down at it.
It was a crayon drawing of a warm, brick house with smoke curling out of the chimney. Inside the large front window, drawn in simple, bold stick figures, were three people holding hands: a tall man, a woman with long dark hair, and a tiny child in