Numbness. It was all I felt since I got the call a few months ago. My mother’s hysteric screams and incoherent words still sounded in my head almost every day. I heard that distinct sound as I drove back home from school the day after she’d called me. I heard it every night when I […]

My mother once told me that I couldn’t be saved, that some people were just born to walk down a path of darkness. It wasn’t until years later that I understood what she meant. You couldn’t save the devil. “We’re here, boss. Where do you want him?” Bruce said over the phone. I looked at […]