Author: Anomama

My son-in-law asked me to stop working Thursdays. He said it was for my health. I have worked the same night desk for nine years, from ten at night until…

I work the pharmacy pickup window. My daughter-in-law comes through it twice a month for pills in my name. I have never been prescribed one of them.She hands me…

My daughter-in-law asked me to keep her Christmas presents in my basement so the kids wouldn’t find them. Eleven boxes. She has never once come back for them. I…

The woman in the next bed is the one my husband left me for. There is a curtain between us. She has never seen my face, and she has been…

The school nurse called me instead of my daughter-in-law because my name was second on the emergency form, and nobody picked up the first number. That phone cal…

Three nights a week I bathe my ex-husband. His wife pays me eleven dollars an hour and has no idea who I am.“You’re so patient with him,” she told me…

Every Tuesday I add about fifteen dollars of my own money to Mr. Enright’s grocery order, and in four years neither he nor his son has ever noticed. Last Friday…

Every Wednesday I put fresh flowers on my own grave. My son picked out the stone, and he has no idea I have stood in front of it. Once, in…

Every Saturday morning I still have coffee with the man who has been stealing from my dead wife’s scholarship fund. He has no idea the bank called me back in…

Every Wednesday for the past year I have picked my granddaughter up from school, and until this month her mother had no idea I was on that list. The office…