3/15
Adoption Series: Everything changed
Read Time: 16 minutes
The demon inside awakens. I’m curled in a ball. I should be running for the hills. Judy’s wildly waving a... View Article
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4/7
Becoming: Sleeping out
Read Time: 12 minutes
Acting out as a fostered and adopted child was my norm. “The lights are out.” “Teddy! Wake up, wake up.... View Article
3/3
Adoption Series: Ledger
Read Time: 4 minutes
I was fostered at birth and adopted at five months by the Leonhardts. I meant to make him feel bad.... View Article
1/20
Adoption Series: Lonely
Read Time: 3 minutes
Lonely and unable to ask why. A hollow ache filled my chest, an emptiness where belonging should have been.... View Article
12/17
Adoption Series: Christmas
Read Time: 4 minutes
I pushed ahead. Not sure why. I knew the scene I envisioned wouldn’t get the result I wanted. (My writing... View Article
12/16
Adoption Series: Escape
Read Time: 7 minutes
With Dad’s hammer tucked into my belt, a length of rope looped around my waist, and a bunch of large... View Article
10/22
Adoption Series: Milk money
Read Time: 4.5 minutes
Mrs. Hays slipped on the wet porch step. The milk money basket hit the asphalt, spewing nickels, dimes, pennies, and... View Article
9/23
Adoption Series: Lacking feeling?
Read Time: 3.5 minutes
“The speeding concrete truck killed my neighbor’s dog. Their boy is hysterical. The dog is cut in two.” I read... View Article
Adoption Series: Spinach
Read Time: 5 minutes
I write this sitting in bed, remembering captivity. It was Saturday, and I’d slept in. “We’ll have peaches and cottage... View Article
8/22
Adoption Series: Couldn’t risk the shame
Read Time: 8 minutes
Couldn’t exist sanely with things as they were. Couldn’t stand the pain. Not knowing another way, I braced myself and... View Article
