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

were bright with tears she refused to let fall.

“They really did it,” she whispered. “They really just cut you out like you were nothing.”

“They did.”

“What are you going to do with these?”

I looked at my daughter, at the evidence of twenty years of calculated cruelty laid out across my comforter.

“I don’t know yet,” I admitted. “But whatever I do, they continue reading …