all broken girls find a broken home eventually… right?

avagrantinparadise:

bedtimestoriesforbrokengirls:

Finding a home and truly living in it are two different things.

In my experience, it took almost twenty years to teach her she didn’t need to flinch when I reached for her. It took fifteen years for her to figure out she no longer needed to lie to survive.

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Patterns

He wants to leave. You can feel it. That’s why you’re here, living this moment, feeling your body slipping away from you. This is the price.

Daddy left you when you were eight, and never even said goodbye. Truth is, even before he left, he hardly said anything at all; when he was around, it was usually to hound Mommy for sex she refused to supply in exchange for money he didn’t have.… Read the rest “Patterns”

Born Again

[CONTENT ADVISORY: Here be dragons.]

You’re a filthy daughter of Lot; always have been, always will be. It’s in the divine plan, that you’d end up this way, making me do these things to you. I’m just grateful to the good Lord for giving me the strength to endure your unholy depredations for so awfully long; I held out against the devil inside you for nineteen straight years!… Read the rest “Born Again”

Goodbye the Hard Way (Complete)

[CONTENT NOTE: Here be dragons. More explicit than a lot of my stuff, which will either make you think “yay!” or “yikes!”]

The room smelled like a toilet in a third-world brothel, and didn’t look much better. The only illumination came from a few bare, flickering lightbulbs dangling from an overhead network of haphazardly strung electrical wires, dimly revealing a cramped, stuffy space that seemed less a carefully crafted rape dungeon than the unfinished weekend remodeling project of an unmotivated suburban dad.… Read the rest “Goodbye the Hard Way (Complete)”

We walked on the beach beside that old hotel
They’re tearing it down now
but it’s just as well
I haven’t shown you everything a man can do
So stay with me baby
I’ve got plans for you
 
—This Is The Time - Billy Joel