In Which I Make a Coffee for Someone Who Isn't Coming
On a Thursday at three, Grace orders a second drink she won't drink — the one her daughter used to order — and Rena learns that a place set at a table is not nothing.
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In Which I Find Out the Difference Between Leaving Someone Alone and Leaving Them
The morning Noah's coffee comes back full instead of empty, Rena has to decide whether respecting someone's silence and abandoning them in it are the same thing.
In Which I Drink the Worst Coffee of My Life on Purpose
Rena drives twenty minutes to Jennifer's apartment carrying a problem she can't name, and gets the answer over a root-bound pothos and the worst cup of coffee of her life.
In Which Thank You Turns Out to Be the Longest Word I Know
A blank Father's Day card, a cold cup of coffee that tastes like his kitchen, and the unsendable letter Rena writes first.
In Which Earl Refuses to Price a Spoon and Accidentally Appraises Me
Rena brings Earl coffee at the antique shop next door and gets an unexpected lesson in worth from a worn-out wooden spoon that isn't for sale.
In Which I Stand in a Creek I Was Not Supposed to Be In
It is Wednesday night, the kind of Wednesday where it has rained for two days, and I am in the cozy chair with Mabel claiming most of my left thigh and Grandma's Bible balanced on my right. I had not...