AFFAIRS IN A GLASS HOUSE
The air in my dream felt warm, familiar, like the way summers used to feel before everything in my life came crashing down.
I stood in a very familiar narrow hallway I recognized instantly—not because it still existed, but because it was once the center of my world.
The Faded wallpaper with cartoon astronauts, bookshelf. The door with the knob too low because we were small when we used it, and cartoon characters splattered on it.
Atticus stood at the other end of the hall, smiling, his missing teeth on display.
Atticus.
Barefoot, messy-haired, in that old oversized T-shirt he always slept in. The one with the peeling stars, and people staring from beneath.