Ever since the accident, there are hardly any dinner plates in the dishwasher. Mostly coffee mugs and teaspoons. Our dinette is covered in unopened mail: fundraisers, magazine subscriptions, and mail-order catalogs, all addressed to you.

I envy the cat patiently loitering in windows. She still believes you are coming back.

Andrée Gendron wrote this story. See more at andreedianegendron.com.