For three years they called me a freak—and I stayed silent—until they touched my little sister in front of everyone, and the truth I buried finally came out and changed everything.

steadying breath, gripping the plastic handle of the main breaker, and slammed it downward with a sharp, heavy click.

The entire house died instantly, the electronic hum of the appliances vanishing into a profound, suffocating darkness that swallowed the rooms whole. At the exact same microsecond, I pulled the pin on the modified fogger canister and continue reading …