My Father Tried to Force Me to Sell the House Until Police Walked In and Said My Rank Out Loud

to do. When he reached for the bat by the coat rack, the one her gardener had left behind in the spring, I had said his name and told him to put it down and he had not.

The swing caught me across the left side. I went down.

What happened in my body during those seconds between the floor and the sirens was purely mechanical. Pain, disorientation, the continue reading …