At Dinner My Father Asked About A Monthly Allowance I Never Received And The Truth Fell Silent Across The Room

The walls blurred into dark wood and shadow, and then the floor came up to meet me, and the last thing I heard before everything went dark was my father saying my name in a voice I had never heard from him before.

I woke up to the sound of a heart monitor. The fluorescent light. The IV taped to the back of my hand. For one disoriented moment my brain continue reading …