My granddaughter was teaching me Facebook so I could see the great-grandbabies. “Just type a name, Grandma,” she said. i typed an old friend’s, and a photo I wasn’t looking for slid up the screen. My husband Roscoe stood at a child’s birthday party, in a backyard I’d never seen. A woman leaned into him like she’d done it a thousand times. Roscoe drives a truck. Gone four nights a week, twenty-two years. And $1,900 a month I could never find in our account. My thumb stayed steady as I tapped face to open her page. Photo after photo. Christmases. A boy and a girl with with his exact crooked grin. I knew that woman’s face from somewhere. Then it landed. She was….
The morning sun was hitting the linoleum in a way that made the scratches look like a map of somewhere I never wanted to visit. I was sitting at the …
My granddaughter was teaching me Facebook so I could see the great-grandbabies. “Just type a name, Grandma,” she said. i typed an old friend’s, and a photo I wasn’t looking for slid up the screen. My husband Roscoe stood at a child’s birthday party, in a backyard I’d never seen. A woman leaned into him like she’d done it a thousand times. Roscoe drives a truck. Gone four nights a week, twenty-two years. And $1,900 a month I could never find in our account. My thumb stayed steady as I tapped face to open her page. Photo after photo. Christmases. A boy and a girl with with his exact crooked grin. I knew that woman’s face from somewhere. Then it landed. She was…. Read More
