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Weekly Contest #251
A full year after my father died, I finally came to terms with his death and decided to start cleaning out the house where he lived for nearly every day of his life. It was a small cabin that sat on a lake overlooking the sunrise each morning, often when he did his best work as a novelist, writing questions to other people’s lives and unraveling the answers at inopportune times. He became a minimalist after my mother died when I was young, but one item he’d kept was our lush, olive green couch. He’d sit most nights and read stories aloud to ...
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