All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

by Bryn Greenwood

because according to Mom, Dad’s brother was gay.

Lol but is he really or does she just not like him

She was almost as bony as the kids in the UNICEF ads, her ribs sticking out through the dry cotton undershirt she put on.

Thats actually so freakin sad. :(

“You think she might have been molested?” another lady said, sounding shocked but excited.

Wtf.

Her weight dogged her for years, because she ate when she was upset.

Same.

but damned if that wasn’t the first time I really felt like Kellen was my name.

Im sorry. How old is Wavy? Why does a grown man feel this way about a child??

When it cooled, I stirred in some crystallized honey and fed the kid that. He seemed to like it fine. Liked me okay, too. Patting me and smiling big while I talked to him.

Ok why is this so cute. But also he is a stranger lol

She’s my bike bitch?

Yeh no. Probably not about a child. Lol

Wavy nodded. Surprised me. So I was her boyfriend?

Cute but also disturbin

Wasn’t it sweet how her tragic ten-year-old niece had a little boyfriend who loved her?

TEN YEARS OLD kissng a grown man! WTF

I killed somebody.

Great. So not only is he a pedo he is a murder.

I didn’t like to think she’d looked at. A blow job on one page and some girl taking it from behind on the other.

Wow exposed to porn at 10.

I was so tired, I sat down at the table and drank a beer while I waited. In fifteen minutes, I had a steaming plate of liver with onions and peppers.

Nice hes grooming her to be a nice little house wife.

“Kiss me.” He did kiss my hand before I took it away, but that wasn’t what I wanted.

SHES IN EIGHTH GRADE!!! No.

When I turned my face to him, he kissed my lips, too.

Jesus christ.

“Home,” she said. I wished that wasn’t the farmhouse, but it was.

I agree but she shouldnt be with you either!

“I know you’re mad, but will you at least give me a kiss?” I said.

So fucking gross

“I need to buy a wedding ring.”

What a fucking joke. Shes literally 13!!!!!!

The dilemma, she wanted to say, is that people don’t buy engagement rings for children.

THANK YOU MAAM !!

Especially thirteen-year-old women.

Girl. You meant GIRL

Once I saw Mama do it with a man I didn’t know.

Oh poor baby. Her innocence gone.

“Yeah, except for the part where you’re a pedophile.” Ricki wrinkled her nose up.

Umm hello!!! Thank you!

and then her tongue slipped past my teeth to my tongue. All the while her arms got tighter around my neck.

Oh my God. She is 13 and he is 25.

“You stupid bitch! I could be in here raping her! And you can’t even get your ass out of bed to come see what she’s screaming about? What the fuck is wrong with you?”

Well i mean you kinda did.

While Kellen ate the dinners I cooked for him, I ran my hands along his shoulders until he took off his shirt to have his back rubbed.

This is my worest nightmare as a mother of a girl.

it true you were gang-raped by some bikers? Yes.

Who the fuck asks that??

I was still the same guy who let her give me a hand job when she was all of thirteen.

Because you are dirt bag.