A week after his death I got an email from my mother in law informing me that my father had hung himself in the basement of the house I grew up in, and she ended the letter with "I didn't call because I don't know how you would react to such terrible news."
2008-06-06 17:10:02 / Rating: 62.25 / 
I was fine until dad started crying before me.
2008-05-20 15:11:17 / Rating: 85.75 /
I slammed my body into the hood of my truck on the night you died and the dent is still there.
2008-02-13 13:18:54 / Rating: 263 /
My back tensed in anticipation of pain as I realized that wasn't the shower I just turned off, but the cold water.
2007-12-07 14:58:12 / Rating: 90 /
Even now, five months later, I can still see the skidmarks on that stretch of highway.
2007-11-24 18:31:14 / Rating: 133.25 /
I didn't know I was pregnant, but now that I've lost it, I won't ever tell him because I refuse to let a baby be a trump card.
2007-09-26 01:06:25 / Rating: 144.5 /
When the ER doctor told me that I had broken my hand, I knew that punching the wall had been a bad idea.
2007-08-06 17:07:22 / Rating: 125.75 /
After I read that email, I wished the pain in my stomach was a result of being punched rather than finding out that my father never really loved me.
2007-07-11 12:57:28 / Rating: 154 /
Twelve years later and I still think someone from the prison is calling to tell me he has died.
2007-06-26 16:59:04 / Rating: 131.75 /
Perhaps it was karmic retribution that in rising to hug my father goodbye, my kneecap dislocated, and I never got that hug.
2007-06-26 16:57:03 / Rating: 175 /
Knowing that my miscarriage brought him relief is something I'm not sure I'll ever forget.
2007-06-22 10:48:05 / Rating: 1352.75 /
As a kid ,I was burning bugs with a magnifying glass when my playmate's father took the glass, zeroed it in on my hand and asked "Do you want to know what the bugs feel"?
2007-05-30 13:36:38 / Rating: 181 /
That quiet summer night in the emergency room was the first time I saw my father cry.
2007-04-16 12:46:45 / Rating: 120.5 /
I didn't expect myself to survive to see the two year anniversary of the day they told me it had been a single bottle of pills that took her away.
2007-02-23 09:15:51 / Rating: 180 /
I decided to never look at his MySpace page again.
2007-01-25 11:28:03 / Rating: 216 /
You turned to look at your computer screen, and I knew that everything I had said meant about as much to you as your last game of solitaire.
2007-01-23 09:52:09 / Rating: 129 /
I was suddenly uninvited from my step daughter's wedding so the man who had brutalized her mother for 25 years could show up in a borrowed suit and later depart after the reception without even saying goodbye to anyone.
2006-12-11 20:24:32 / Rating: 196.25 /
It was in equally shared tears of a naive teenaged girl that I realized that I too was rid of my childhood.
2006-12-11 20:24:08 / Rating: 157 /
Then the doctor said the Crohn's is something you can live with, and that the stomach pain will be gone in a couple of days, but he was wrong.
2006-12-05 14:31:40 / Rating: 113 /
Three years of memories flooded my head and I gripped the couch while she drunkenly flirted with him all night, right in front of me, before I stormed out forever.
2006-10-05 10:54:22 / Rating: 158.75 /
It was upon the waking with red knuckles and bruises... I realize, I'm addicted.
2006-10-02 16:32:52 / Rating: 141 /
While the doctor talked about the pain my father was likely to experience after the back surgery, I noticed he had an erection.
2006-09-29 22:00:58 / Rating: 157.5 /
