Black Cat

has the nerve to break any kind of rules.

This town fuckin’ blows,”

“Don’t be such a baby,” he said. “I’m not gonna do anything to you.” Then he started to crack up.

was just a stream of sludge and mud

even suggested that my dad set him up so he’d get the whole company, but nobody bought it.

We knew he was guilty because that’s the kind of guy my uncle was.

to me and whispered some dark

I said, “Mom, if he ever hits me I’ll stab him.” She said it wasn’t him hitting me that she was afraid of.

due to their shared business interests.

Mental illness is a gray cloud inside of a gray cloud. It gets sharpened into focus with different names, but names change, and with that, identities change.