I recall looking at him from across the kitchen table.
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“My son is gone because of what happened there, but the only item he had on him that day disappeared immediately after.”
He could not give me any response.
No one could.
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And then Mother’s Day came, just like a sudden storm I wasn’t prepared for.School supplies
Each year, Randy would make me breakfast himself. He would usually make dry cereal, leave milk everywhere, and get flowers from outside with soil still clinging to the roots.
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On that day, I was alone in the living room with Randy’s dinosaur blanket in my lap, while an empty cereal bowl sat unused on the coffee table.Mother’s Day crafts
It was too quiet inside the house.