Week 2: The Missing Stair

[caile]

It's best not to want anything from the kitchen when my father is cooking. He slams the cupboard doors and clangs the pots and stomps on the brown linoleum flowers underfoot. He fills up the whole room with a fug of irritability. If you go to the sink, it's bound to be just when he needs water. If you open the fridge, he'll trip over you. Wherever

Comments

[mallorys_camera]

Succinct (which I always admire in writing.) Your information flow, the way you work from the specific to the general, is very strong.

[caile]

Thank you for the feedback!

[amberdawnpullin]

[caile]

Talking about it is a step forward, I hope.

[basric]

Well written.

[cheshire23]

This is very familiar to me.

[halfshellvenus]

Wonderful conclusion to this story, and so much great description of the damage caused by living with an angry, temperamental person. Not knowing what will set them off almost makes it worse.

[n3m3sis43]

This. It's like you constantly have to tiptoe around it, and then when you're no longer in that situation, it doesn't feel quite right if something isn't about to blow up at any second.