My Mom Flies An Fighter Jet

A man teaching me to ride a bike. Someone beside my mother in old photographs without his face scratched out. Then I saw the truth. He had not come for me because he loved me. He came because I was useful.

I stood beside my mother. My name is Lucas Miller, I said. Not Voss.

His face went still. That was the last thing I ever said to him.

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