“It was thirty-one dollars and it was pointed at the right wall.”

Part Fifty-Two: Ten Past Six

I get home at about half past five now, four days a week, and on the fifth I am in Casa Grande or Yuma and back by nine.

Daniela moved out in the August of 2026, into a place off Fifteenth Avenue with Yesenia from the clinic, eleven minutes away, and she has a parking space of her own and the 2016 Civic has a hundred and twenty-nine thousand miles on it and a new timing belt that she paid for.

She comes over on Sundays and she cooks and she is a better cook than either of her parents and she is insufferable about it.