When the Reckoning Comes

by LaTanya McQueen

what Mira learned that day was how easy it was to let someone convince you of their truth instead of believing in your own.

To believe, one must care, and who’s to say anyone ever cared?

With time, forgetting grew easier. With time, her nightmares faded.

Just because your daughter is getting married to a Hunnicutt doesn’t mean they’ll ever look at you as anything beyond what you are—a poor drunk. How foolish can you be?”