Papa was Lord of the Sea. Our mother and my three sisters lived in a castle in the hills. When…
We have been in the fallout shelter for two years today. Dad made a chocolate cake with two candles, though…
Sanity is a strange country. Everything is right side up and manageable. You don’t get too mad there. You don’t…
My father was dying. My mother sent me a text. I was in Zaire giving vaccines. I couldn’t secure a…
He thought he was unlovable. When he murdered my mother he thought he became unlovable. “I’m so sorry,” he thickly…
In the summer of my tenth year, kids went missing. Kids went missing all the time but it seemed it…
He’s resting now. We are all trying to be quiet. He has been drinking a lot recently. Work is hard.…
He giggling and smashing mud between his hands. Little Eddie. He was enthralled by the mud. He was sitting in…
She was three and ‘helping’ me make dinner. We were cooking stew and I had only the potatoes left to…