You’re the responsible one, his will said. I leave these to you.

She opens the albums. Carefully labeled photos; dates, names, genealogical charts, news clippings.

Also: many pictures of her brother, but none of her.

Out of respect for the dead, she waits six months before she burns it all.

Graham Robert Scott teaches writing at a university in north Texas. His stories have appeared in Barrelhouse Online, Nature, and X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine.