The short story was published in the Spring 2021 issue of Ploughshares.

It was Communion Day when Pastor Short announced before the congregation his engagement to a woman who was not our mother. I learned that people just feed the possessions of the dead to Goodwill, so they don’t sprout bad dreams that pretend to be memories. Instead of doing our little-by-little Sunday donations of Daddy’s clothes, we went to church. Communion was my favorite religious activity. We got to eat our God and drink His blood once a month. Christians are something else, but I can’t deny that…