At My Mom’s Birthday They Said I Didn’t Belong So I Stayed Quiet and By Morning Everything Had Changed

drinks and the music had gotten louder and nobody was paying much attention to anything except the sound of their own voices. Tyler stood up from the kids’ table with a full cup of soda in his hand, condensation slick on the plastic, and moved through the room with the lazy confidence of a boy who has never in his life been told he is too much. He continue reading …