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

nowhere. Holidays missed because the map changed after midnight. Funerals attended with one phone on vibrate and another locked in a Faraday pouch in your bag.

The loneliness is the part most people misunderstand.

I had learned to compartmentalize so effectively that it became less a skill than a posture. There were rooms where I was Elena Vance, daughter continue reading …