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Liars and Dungeons [egnellahC sdrawkcaB]

What is my secret? Only this: my parents had been abusing me ever since I could remember. I was an only child, an “accident,” as my mother so lovingly referred to me.

The abuse came in all definitions of the word. But worse than the open-handed slaps, worse than the well-aimed punches, worse even than the terror of sleeping with one eye literally open, waiting for him to open the door and creep into my room, were the hate-filled words that my mother flung at me like so many bullets.

Ugly. Fat. Monkey-face. Cry-baby. I hate you. I wish you would die.

On my tenth birthday, I decided to tell my secret to my 5th grade teacher. I knew they had labeled me as ESE in school and that my mother had the school counselor believing I was something called a pathological liar. When your mother’s a psychiatrist and your father’s a doctor, it’s so easy to pull strings and let files remain unopened. Unexamined.

So the day after I revealed my secret, they punished me by putting me in a dungeon and throwing away the key.

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Liars and Dungeons [egnellahC sdrawkcaB]
Freedom :]
Posted 3 months ago

Loving it so far. Yet its so … painful and the way you wrote it seems like I can actually feel Angela’s pain.
Liars and Dungeons [egnellahC sdrawkcaB]
John Perkins
Posted 3 months ago

This one seems to cement the fact that she was actually abused. And the bit about her parent’s profession is chilling. It would be easy for them to cover their tracks, to say she’s the deranged one.
Liars and Dungeons [egnellahC sdrawkcaB]
Val
Posted 3 months ago

some of us have been where the heroine has been … and our parents weren’t professionals… the effect is the same: abuse is abuse. We pay for it for the rest of our life.
Liars and Dungeons [egnellahC sdrawkcaB]
thebetweenspace
Posted 3 months ago

It always strikes me as strange when a wife covers something like this up that a husband does to their child. It’s almost as sick as the act itself. Loyalty is one thing, but when someone is harming your child…
Liars and Dungeons [egnellahC sdrawkcaB]
Flute Loop<33
Posted 2 months ago

I love the last line, in a completely horrible way…