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Weekly Contest #284
“Mom!” I called into the vacant house, “I’m home!” I must’ve called it a thousand times, but this time as the word left my lips it didn’t feel quite as right. Home was a foreign concept, so lost within my mind that even as my mother embraced me, warm and loving as ever, it didn’t sit right in the air. Some deep tugging sensation to my core told me that home was no longer the word used to describe this place. Dad came up from the basement, smiling warmly at me. He leaned against the counter as mom cooked and asked me his million-l...
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