I begged and pleaded for a little sister for about a year and I was finally going to get her. Mom was pregnant by Mr Joseph Woods. Mom worked with Mr Woods at the post office. He was one of the best dressed, bald headed, pieces of shit you could ever hope to meet. He carried a decorated cane like a pimp, and wore flowery silk, long-sleeve shirts and snazzy…
Fishing became one of my favorite things. It was a peaceful way for me to escape from everything else going on around me. All I had to do out there was concentrate on trying to catch the biggest fish. In the summertime, Lady and I would get up at the crack of dawn and head to Alum Creek. Alum Creek was about five miles from where I lived and we…
I remember the night when Mom finally passed away. I say finally because she was suffering so bad that I couldn’t bare to even look at her face or into her sunken eyes. It was Christmas Eve and I was sitting on a customers lap in my neon/fluorescent orange outfit with the Swarovski crystals all over it, the top had really cute short sleeves and fit my fairly new Double…
I left the house bundled up like an Eskimo and headed to school. It was freezing cold outside and everything was covered in glistening, white snow. I had on my new, knee high, chocolate brown, suede boots with the rabbit fur-lining. I loved those boots. Mom tried to buy me what she liked to call “practical boots” which translated to big, ugly, waterproof, and especially ugly, what I liked to…