In a college speech class, the professor merely said, “Your topic is ‘moving.’” Frozen, I only spoke about going from class to class.

Now, I would have said I scrubbed the floor when we broke up, put my furniture in storage, took one last look. And left.

Paul Levine’s writing has appeared in The Kansas Quarterly, Permafrost, The Berkeley Fiction Review, and The New York Times, among others. His recent memoir, The Venice Literary Review, is available on Amazon and other outlets. He lives in Venice, Florida.