He entered the world already erased, filed away as “Unknown,” as if his existence were an error to be corrected. In that house of half-truths, he learned…
I asked my mother about the strange ring on her arm, expecting some clumsy childhood story, a fall, a surgery, anything ordinary. Instead, she named a disease…
What waited in the shadows was not a nest but an execution ground, engineered by instinct and hunger. Asian hornets had built their fortress above his head,…
She hadn’t come to admit to some childish prank. She believed her crime was silence, that watching her father hurt her mother and doing nothing made her…