From the Corner of the Oval

by Beck Dorey-Stein

“We just try to get our paragraph right.” Life is short and this world is big. Get your paragraph right.

It’s the one paragraph in a three-page letter that barely includes me. It’s all about him. Of course it’s his favorite.

“You hide yourself away in more horcruxes than Voldemort,” I’d told him once. But Jason had never read Harry Potter and didn’t get the reference, which, let’s be honest, should have been the first sign.