Tag: tragedy
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Dead Inside
Unless you are the luckiest duck to ever walk this Earth, at some point, life rears its ugly head and backhands you hard enough to make your head spin in a way that forever changes who you are. Trauma. It comes in similar veins, but the details are different for every victim. Perhaps abused or…
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One Day After
Twenty-five years ago, on Valentine’s Day of all days, I opened the door of my barracks room to joke with my roommate, who I thought was jiggling the door handle. It wasn’t my roommate at the door. A male acquaintance forced his way into my room and made my life a living hell. The death…
Wisdom from the Trenches 