cnu-At my fortieth birthday party, my sister swung a baseball bat into…

out, but everything still smelled like smoke.

Sentencing was set for one month later.

That was when my parents began begging me for mercy from the same woman who had shown none to my child.

Part 8
The month before sentencing was the loudest silence of my life.

My parents had spent nearly a year calling me cruel, dramatic, vindictive, unforgiving. After continue reading …