Nine Years After Her Mother Buried Her Trinity Returned With One Message

by Bethany, painted over, the furniture that had held decades of family memory replaced with things chosen to look good in social media posts.

“Look at her living your life,” he would say. “Doesn’t that make you want to cooperate?”

It made me want to survive. That was what it made me.

In year three the newspapers brought something that nearly broke me.continue reading …