I Let My Father Hear From My Lawyer Before He Heard From Me

decades making things “on me.” His temper. His drinking. The hole he punched through the laundry room door in 2008. Mom’s migraines. The awkward Thanksgiving after he called Ethan “that charity case boy” because Ethan’s father had filed bankruptcy.

Everything circled back to me somehow.

Even weather, probably.

I kept not answering.

Then the family group continue reading …