Believing you will receive

Believing you will receive

This piece will appear in my forthcoming book We Had It Coming. It was originally published at Flaming Hydra. I was out on the porch in the dark with a friend who had stopped by to tell me he was getting a divorce. No no no he didn’t want to come inside and disturb the kids he said. Out here is fine he said. I brought out a couple of ice cold cold ones and listened to a story about the collapse of an entire world. I confess I teared up more than…