They look cheap in this light.”

“We’ll go over them after dinner.”

Tile samples.

In the hallway.

For a contractor arriving Monday, on keys that weren’t mine anymore.

I stepped out onto the porch and pulled the door shut behind me, and through it I could hear Gloria saying something about the flowers, and Brooke laughing at it.

The rental sat next to the Mercedes, both of them silver, and I got in and didn’t start it.

The living room window glowed like a picture in a catalog.