The Wrong Love
One of the movers stepped over the photo without looking down, his boot missing the frame by inches, and I had to swallow hard against the urge to scream at a stranger for something that wasn't even his fault.
A neighbor two doors down stood in her own doorway watching, not even pretending not to stare.
"I'm sorry," the landlord said, and to his credit, he actually looked like he meant it. "I gave you the time I could. I've got my own obligations."
"I know," I said, though the words felt like they belonged to someone else. My whole body had gone strange and distant, watching my life get carried past me box by box, like I was observing someone else's disaster from a great distance instead of