My Parents Doubled My Rent So My Unemployed Sister Could Move In, So I Moved Out and Took Everything

but they evaporated fast, replaced by something hotter.

Fury.

I found a rusty iron bar half-buried under a bush and jammed it into the rotted latch area. The wood cracked loudly, but the music thumping inside the house swallowed the sound. I worked the bar until the latch gave. The padlock still hung, but the weakened doorframe shifted enough for me continue reading …