Outside the Lines You Drew
"Deduct whatever needs to be deducted."
He looked at me standing alone at the front desk and, in the end, didn't say anything else.
After all, in what family did a wedding get handled entirely by the bride alone, from beginning to end, without the groom's parents ever showing their faces?
By the time I signed the final cancellation agreement, night had fallen completely.
I returned the pen to the manager. Just as I stepped out through the revolving door, my phone vibrated.
It was a message from the secondhand marketplace.