A Flicker in the Dark

by Stacy Willingham

An eighteen-year-old boy with anger management issues definitely has something to do with an unresolved parental dispute, feelings of abandonment, needing to prove himself. Needing to seem strong when inside, he’s breaking.

But again, I did it to feel normal. I did it to drown out the solitude, the physical presence of another body tricking my own into feeling less alone. Somehow, it did the opposite.

the past never stays where we try to keep it, stuffing it deep into the back of a closet and hoping to forget.