I still remember how he’d laughed at me. I could feel event today the hurt and anger I felt that day. Mama had sat there with her head down while he’d taunted me and laughed.
‘You’ll never fly anything other than a paper airplane. They’ll never let you fly. You gotta be able to count, read good and follow directions. You can’t do any of that. You’re just as useless as your worthless mama.”
Anger flowed through me even now as I thought about how Mama had sat there, head down and saying nothing.
“Mama, are you going to let him talk about you like that? Don’t take that off him. He’s a lazy no-good bum.”
But still she sat on the sofa, not saying a word. Daddy continued to rant. He grew angrier and stepped closer to me.
“I will talk to her any way I want when I want. Got it? I own her, s
