Chapter 10. Let’s try to burn it! Tyler thought to himself. In his mind, that chest is what killed his daughter. That chest has ruined his life. He wishes he would have never answered that door to that mystery man. He wishes he would have told him no. It was…

Chapter 2. “Congratulations on taking your first step to freedom!” Linda Mayfield said as she motioned Cami to sit in her office. “Doesn’t seem real yet.” Cami said as she looked down at her lap. She twirled her fingers. “It will. Trust me. It’ll come. It’ll be a feeling you…

Chapter 9. The detective walked into the interrogation room with a stack of documents, he dropped them on the table in front of Alice and Tyler and said, “Looks like you both barely passed the psych evaluation. Seems you both have some trauma to sort through.” Alice and Tyler shared…

Chapter 8. They paid for a week stay in an efficiency hotel as they awaited the investigation to be completed. The moment they were checked in, they both took a shower separately. Alice laid in the bottom of the shower and cried as she washed the blood out of her…

Some of us were raised to believe divorce is a bad thing. I’ve heard it all myself, personally. They didn’t care that you were being abused or that you weren’t happy. They say, “You married them, deal with it.” They only cared about the sanctity of marriage. Don’t get me…

When people say they wish they could be a child again, my first thought is they seem to have had a decent upbringing because I definitely don’t want to go back to those years of my life. I want to move forward with my life. I don’t find adulting hard…

Disclaimer: I am not promoting suicide! I repeat, I am not promoting suicide! I am simply expressing an opinion that may trigger many! This topic is one of the most controversial within the mental health community. You really need to look at it from every angle to truly understand. I…

Chapter 7. It seemed to take forever for the hospital to get done with their evaluation on Tyler. Alice insisted she waited on him before they made that dreaded trip down to the police station for the investigation. She wasn’t ready for this. She was plagued by the horrific images…

Chapter 6. What she saw in the passing trees were horrifying alone. Desolate and scarred children. Some of them were flashes of mangled children. It troubled her. She couldn’t get the images from her mind. They plagued her mind with visions of disparity. Even when she closed her eyes, all…