Mariya turned the key in the loose lock of the weatherbeaten red front door, and entered the front hall cluttered with boxes, spying the backpack and big kid’s green and blue winter coat splayed out on the floor where they’d been flung as if in anger or a fit of passion. She thought about the child who had entered the house alone an hour and a half earlier, how he must have felt coming into an empty house again, silent after his day of chaotic and competing energies at school.
Latchkey 2024
Latchkey 2024
Latchkey 2024
Mariya turned the key in the loose lock of the weatherbeaten red front door, and entered the front hall cluttered with boxes, spying the backpack and big kid’s green and blue winter coat splayed out on the floor where they’d been flung as if in anger or a fit of passion. She thought about the child who had entered the house alone an hour and a half earlier, how he must have felt coming into an empty house again, silent after his day of chaotic and competing energies at school.