1. Stacks of T-shirts, sweatpants, underwear, yellowed sheets, and loads of Kleenex.

2. Bottles of Merlot. The steaks Anastasia bought; we planned to cook them for a special dinner.

3. Anastasia’s lavender blouses, Capris, and sweatpants.

4. Every invective that rises as I pack her goods into crumbling cardboard boxes.

Yash Seyedbagheri is a graduate of Colorado State University’s MFA fiction program. His work has been published in SmokeLong Quarterly, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and Ariel Chart, among others.