Home Is Where the Bodies Are

by Jeneva Rose

Knock, knock. Don’t worry. It’s not for you … this time.

She told me flowers reminded her of life—beautiful, delicate, and short-lived.

There’s not many things you can count on in life, but that … is one thing you can count on. It will rise and it will fall—no matter what. Don’t matter if you’re sick or sad. Don’t matter if there is war or there is peace. Don’t matter if you see it or you don’t. That sun. You can count on it.

He didn’t disappear. Don’t trust

Money changes people the same way death does. If you don’t know how to manage every aspect of it, it’ll bring out the worst in you.

“Brian, when you love someone as much as I love you, you believe them. You always believe them,”

No one wants to be someone else’s monster.

“Well, you won’t have to worry about that anymore … because Charles Gallagher is dead.”

You’re not the child I wanted, but you’re the one I deserved. –Regretfully, your mother

I’ve taken these secrets to the grave, but that’s as far as I can take them. Laura Thomas

“You would have done the same for me. That’s what sisters do. They save each other.”

This is my story. And it starts at home … because home is where the bodies are.’”