My Father Called Me A Parasite In Court Until My Lawyer Placed A Sealed Envelope On The Bench

The first lie my father told the jury that morning was that I had not worked a day since college.

He said it the way he said everything from a position of advantage, cleanly, without tremor, his county-council baritone moving through Courtroom 3B of the Fairfax County Circuit Court as if he were announcing a zoning decision rather than attempting to continue reading …