My Husband and My Mother Poisoned Us and Put Us in the Ground. They Forgot One Thing: I Woke Up First

You did not bury us that day.

You planted us.

And we pushed up through the soil, all three of us, and we brought your evil out into the light.”

The silence that followed was complete.

Even the stenographer’s hands went still.

I want to explain why I chose those words, standing at that stand, because I did not choose them for the two people in the orange jumpsuits.

They were past reaching; there is no sentence in any language that would have opened a door in my mother.