A Backpack Left on the Porch

Photo by Robin Jonathan Deutsch on Unsplash — an interpretation of the setting, not the moment itself.

The week after the fire, a backpack appeared on the family’s borrowed porch. School supplies, exact sizes, the right team’s cap. Then another. Then six more. Nobody in the neighborhood will say who organized it.

This story was submitted anonymously. We wrote it down, because someone should remember.

— We Are Silence Dogood