The Silence That Screamed

ind, a blur of diner shift

im, for Mike, and the "debt" he owed to the

llars, he said, o

, praying it would buy hi

hed beside me, his asthma wors

money, sweetie. Daddy's going to be safe,

uggle for breath became

limp body, clutching the crumpled "

, fast!" I screame

gasped, and then, a terrible,

e. My baby

ike described, Leo's cold ashes in my ba

ght and cruel: "This 'Scorpion' scare

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tered. Leo di

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