An Anonymous Crown

My father wants me to come home with my family to ride out the quarantine. Really what I think he’s demanding of me is that I position myself to die with them if worst comes to worst. My very premature birth left me with a particularly finicky set of lungs and my family won’t let […]

The village had been trying to call us. Sara got an email from her friend Marsha, who is on the village council, to say that Jeff, the village manager, had been calling our house all morning. It was 11am, and we had been asleep. The kids wouldn’t go to bed the previous night until 1am, […]