We Buy Houses
by Chloe N. Clark

My parents had been planning to move for as long as I could remember. They were always talking about picking everything up and speeding across the state, across the country, across oceans. But, they never did. Falling into the routines they’d built for themselves, the small comforts that make a life bearable. So, when they called me up that summer and said they’d sold the house, I laughed when they told me.