Sibling abuse

I am not that special. My parents are married to each other. I have never really experienced prejudice or racism or abuse. I am an average kid with an above average IQ. I am a Christian. I can attend the church I choose. I have never gone to bed hungry. I can feed myself, bathe myself, and I am toilet trained. Why is this important? Because I didn’t realize there were people my age who had been seriously abused, can’t feed themselves or bathe themselves, or even tell anyone what they might…

It was his first day of school, he texted me through out the day, basically saying she was annoying and such a goody two shoes, in which she was. He said how her sister Bianca was all over him and over Xavier too. So he texted me the address of the cabin, and I went for a drive with a shotgun in the backseat of my Tahoe. Is it the right thing to do? Maybe not. Am I going to scare the living shit out of some kids? Yes I am. “Xavier, what if she shows up with Damon, you know how bad this can…

on it, so he shouldn’t. Part of me goes out to him. Heartbreak is the sound of ice cracking. Deep. Layers and layers muffling the sound (Wideman 687).” He knows that there were warning signs but instead of stepping in and helping his youngest sibling he went about living his own day-to-day life. “Try to understand where I been. Why I did what I did. You got time for that in here. Time’s all you got in here” (Wideman 682). We will never know what Robby’s life would have become and he…

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