Friday Story Bazaar ~ Tale Eighty-Four

Trauma

by
Alexander M Zoltai

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They wouldn’t look back at her history—wouldn’t find the incidents that contributed to the shootings—would miss the earliest indications…

She’d been birthed to two immigrants—both from war-torn countries—each having their own version of trauma…

Mother had only transferred to her a massive sense of insecurity…

Father gave her the beginnings of her own trauma—not raping her; but, regularly, engaging in extremely inappropriate handling of her body… Some mig...