My Family Reported Five Million Dollars Stolen Before They Ever Checked My Leather Case

“Does she ask what you’re doing with all that money?”

“She asks what I’m doing, in general.”

“Label them boring,” Olivia said.

I wrote KITCHEN on one flap, WINTER COATS on the next, and TAXES 2019 on the third.

“Taxes is boring,” she said.

“Nobody steals a box of taxes.”

She picked the ceramic hen up off the windowsill and turned it over.

“Is this evidence?”