1975: What I Wanted
by Mary Alston Capps
I wanted my sister to not be in that box. I wanted my parents to laugh again. I wanted my friends to actually be my friends and not call me hurtful names behind my back. I wanted my awful cousin to have never come into my room in the middle of the night. I wanted my other brothers and sister to have not gone away and left me like an only child. I wanted to never have come to Texas.
Intense. Honest. Painful. Would like to see this expanded.
Thanks Lynn. Unfortunately, there's always more darkness.
Well, I'm intrigued now.
i'm equally intrigued by the story behind the story as by the story here and by your author's note. really like this.
Intense. Tells a story in so few words.
One year in the form of a can of Campbell's condensed soup.