blur of slammed doo

Chicago gave me

taking on the Hughes family.

footage, no witnesses willing to tal

ng relationship with Hughe

unding for the community center where I worked was suddenly "under review.

down completely if you staye

ment, for emotional distress, for attempting to extort money fro

w's laughter and Caleb's running feet, was suffocatingly silent. I would sit on the floor

he silence w

hes stood there, flanked by three of his t

kicking over a lamp. "And she tried t

elevision. They ripped Caleb's drawings from the refrigerat

hallway, unable to m

parents, my father proud in his Army uniform. A picture of Andr

tel, sending the framed photos crashing to the floor. The glass shattered. He stomped on th

I ran at him, not thi

y head hit the plaster with a sickening crack. The room swam. He hit m

as I lay there, in my ribs, my sto

ball, trying t

ted in a drunken, vicious grin. He w

this is, bitc

"ashes" his father's people had sent

l over the news," Barney said

ed the

e contents o

my mouth. It coated my bruised and tear-strea

orever," he mocked, as his

urinate on the floor next to my head, the foul stre

k of you and your d

hall as I lay there, broken, covered in the de