My Brother Arrested Me At Thanksgiving Dinner

And it wasn’t James.

It was my father.

Robert Whitmore. The quiet accountant who sighed at my brother’s theatrics. The man whose disappointment in me had felt like a constant, low-grade hum for the last decade.

The world tilted. The thrum of the helicopter rotors faded into a dull roar in my ears. I felt the folder slip from my fingers.

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