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Weekly Contest #236
Content warning: allusion to childhood abuse and SA. “That’s what’s wrong with her–you and your mother!” My father shouted angrily, his fat pointer finger inches from my mother’s face. The sentence came frothing out of his mouth, hot spit landing like acid on her cheeks. His words were daggers–said to her but embedding themselves into my back, as I cowered in the corner, head between my knees, crying and waiting for the threat to pass. He’d inevitably leave again. Storming out to God knows where, slamming the d...
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