Lee Upton is the author of Visitations: Stories and Bottle the Bottles the Bottles the Bottles: Poems, and other books. She lives in Easton, Pennsylvania.
My eyes snagged on a man’s upper lip. It was a thin lip but an expressive one. You expected those lips to speak a Romance language. And then the man spoke with the flat Midwestern voice of any of us. “You must be Natalie,” he said.