Listener - The

Mariana shook her head. “No. You did. I just heard you.”

The woman laughed bitterly. “And what about your truth?” The Listener

Her first client of the day was a man in a rain-soaked trench coat. He sat in the blue chair, wrung his hands, and said nothing for seven minutes. Mariana waited. She didn’t check her watch, didn’t clear her throat. She just breathed with him. Mariana shook her head