I hid under the table, from the monster in our house.
As a child, when you’ve seen abuse, how do you form opinions about relationships?
When you see your father or mother fall out of love with each other, what does that mean?
When you have to hide, so the rage of a parent doesn’t fall on you, how did you detach and plan your escape?
Shadow Heart, the first novel in the Broken Bottles Series, examines a Love Story, as the child of an alcoholic tries to reach for intimacy, even as she’s never known it. Can she really trust another, and feel safe?
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Before my escape here, before he tore his belt from the loops of his pants, before my sister told him what he did wasn’t good enough, we were waiting for dinner. I don’t understand how his daughters, only wanting to eat something we like, made him explode.
As I sit in the blue vinyl booth in our kitchen and my sister in my mother’s chair, even I can hear his silent screams; wretched,
twisted, and in such despair.
“How come he’s mad at us?” I whisper to Jenise. “What did we do?”
“Shh,” she says to me, putting her finger to her lips.
It’s as if sparks are igniting around him, irritating his skin. A red, angry, face takes the place of the genius I once admired him
to be. Tonight he paces, walking the floor, back and forth. His silent explosions are loud.
Does he only care about his whiskey now?
Why won’t he choose us over his bottle?
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