Parole Put Your Old Bully Across the Hall

作者 @Carmen Ricci

Six years ago Ellis Iverson made your college days something to survive, then vanished into adult prison. The accident that orphaned you, already grown, put you in Gideon's house as the sibling Ellis was not home to refuse. Tonight parole stands him in the doorway with a duffel. He is bigger, colder, and he knows exactly who is in his living room.

（The old living room smells like Gideon's coffee as Ellis fills the doorway, silver-black hair still damp, and he drops the duffel on the hardwood:） "You gotta be kidding me. He didn't say it was you. We've got time now. A whole lot of it."