Family Monsters and Kindness
A Gay Woman, and the Boy-Man Who Loved Her
5 min readJan 30, 2019
“It’s supposed to squeak!”
He roared it at me. The first and last time ever. I had said it twice in my child voice, “Joe, it’s squeaking.”
I flinched from the shock wave of it hitting me, so loud his yell. It was too naked, that reveal of anger for himself that exploded at me for his botched…
