Fiction
The High Five
And other things my mother refused to teach me
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6 min readJun 28, 2023
I got my ass pounded on my first day of public school. I was fourteen and had previously been schooled at home.
This beating happened fifty-six days after my father left my mother.
It was the day Mom started her new job, the first job she’d held since she was 28 years old…