Eighteen Years After Ray Abandoned Him on a Dirt Road, Thomas Found His Mother’s Letter
“I took a guess.”
I took the cup.
It had two sugars and no cream.
I drank it anyway.
She put the sack down on a crate of compressor parts.
“Kyle thinks I’m at the florist.”
“Then we’ll make it quick,” I said.
She pulled a folded florist’s card out of her pocket and laid it next to the sack.