"leah"
All my mom's kids have two middle names, but one of mine comes from a woman whose son set the fire that killed her in her sleep.
All my mom's kids have two middle names, but one of mine comes from a woman whose son set the fire that killed her in her sleep.
I was raped, molested, abused, lost, shot, and abandoned, but my biggest fear is taxidermy.
As soon as I heard my father ask 'Why is the toilet seat in bed with her?' that morning, I kicked myself for not checking on my sickly mother the night before.
I never really believed my mom's stories of how abusive her childhood was until two days ago when my grandmother pulled me aside and quietly informed me that she wished she had never ever adopted that nasty little irish girl.
Up until I saw the man's legs sticking out from under the truck's trailer I had thought the woman's shrieking had been unmerited.
When the catheter tore through my mother's heart, it tore through absolutely everything.
A beautiful, glamorous black woman laid in the trauma bay after her motorcycle crashed and as we cut her clothes off we realized that her pelvis was horribly broken and she would never be the same.
I had to forgive my mom for using the duct tape, or else suffer the same fate.
I was an 18-year-old virgin when I was raped by a married Mexican in a Cancun nightclub.