The Way Life Should Be

by William Dameron

The thing about moving into a small town in New England is that you will never really feel like you belong. You’ll never become a townie, even if, like Tina, you grew up five miles away. You’ll never fully understand the stories that have been told since high school or be the first to appear on the call list, or know the backstory and twisted, almost incestuous family tree that branches out and intermingles like the old oaks on the town common.