Pieces of Summer (A Stand-Alone Novel)
“At least he can’t hit her anymore. He’s too scared of what I’ll do to him. He spent four days in the hospital last time.
“That James kid is a menace,” is all the cops said to the doctor before I left the hospital that day. The doctor had checked my wrist, but he lied and told them there was no way I caused that damage to my old man because my wrist had been fractured for at least a week.
As soon as they’d left, he put my arm in a cast and told me I was tough as hell. Not to worry.
Now Dad is probably in a bar, boozing away all of our money. The electricity was cut off four days ago. If he knew I worked, he’d be stealing every dime of the money I have hidden away. He’d use it to gamble. Not pay our bills. Fortunately he stays too drunk to know where I am or what I’m doing.
Food stamps kept me from starving as a kid. Now I eat whatever leftovers are at the diner. Every dime I make goes toward a better future.
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