Tag: overcoming trauma and addiction

Frank S. remembers his childhood as rough-edged and haunted from the beginning. Born in 1976 to a teenage mother and a barely-sixteen-year-old father, his earliest memories are marked not with cartoons and playgrounds, but with absence. His father was gone by the time Frank was three, stabbed to death after robbing a drug dealer. Loss [...]

Some stories seem destined to end in tragedy, until someone decides to write a new chapter. This is one of those stories. It belongs to Summer W., a woman whose…