Mom Kicked Me Out Until Dad Called About The Mortgage And Everything Changed

noticed. Mom called him sensitive. Dad called him still figuring things out. I called him what he was only inside my own head: the center of gravity in that house. Everything bent around him.

By the time the Sunday fight happened, I was exhausted in a way sleep did not fix. I had been up since dawn for an early shift, and all I wanted was to shower,continue reading …