Always Coming Home: a Short Story

A year after her return home to Wisconsin, Melissa is alone again. Life is good. She has good friends, a bit of land in a quiet place and a job she likes. Her family is far enough away they don't intrude. One night, as she's chasing what she thinks might be a trespassing raccoon, a childhood memory reappears. The same night, a wandering boyfriend returns, claiming to be reformed. As she tries to walk in two worlds, Melissa is in neither.