My Stepmother Said I Disgraced The Uniform Until A Soldier Stood Up And Told The Truth

this boy I had held as an infant, this boy I had taught to ride a bicycle in the driveway of the house on Maple Crest before Diane decided my visits were disruptive, and I understood that he was not being cruel. He was repeating what he had been told since childhood, as a fish knows water without knowing it is water.

“No,” I said. “It isn’t.”

I did continue reading …