My Sister Got a New Car While I Got a Bus Pass but My 18th Birthday Changed Everything

path of least resistance, and he had taken that path so many times it had become the only road he knew.

September 14th. My eighteenth birthday.

I woke at 6:12, body clock from two years of Milstone shifts. The house smelled like coffee and nothing else. No special breakfast, no balloons. Dad came through in his work boots, handed me a white envelope,continue reading …