Payable on Death
And then, in the voice he uses for subcontractors, “Your grandmother had no business leaving you financial papers.”
And I said the one good thing I said that entire week, and I said it without planning it.
I said: “Then why are you worried about this one?”
He hung up.
And I sat in a cemetery car park at twenty to five in October with a dead telephone in my hand and understood, for the first time, that I was in something.
Part Eight: The Kitchen
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