I Came Home From Work and Found My Baby in a Condition I Will Never Forget – The Archivist

father’s brown eyes and my stubborn chin. She came into the world screaming, and I thought: good. Scream. Make them hear you. Don’t ever let anyone make you small.

The first five years were a blur of survival. Marcus worked double shifts at a repair shop in Ballard while I finished my GED, then started community college classes, two at a time, whatever continue reading …