The Pentagon's Fury

blur of slammed doo

Chicago gave me

taking on the Hughes family.

footage, no witnesses willing to tal

ng relationship with Hughe

unding for the community center where I worked was suddenly "under review.

down completely if you staye

ment, for emotional distress, for attempting to extort money fro

w's laughter and Caleb's running feet, was suffocatingly silent. I would sit on the floor

he silence w

hes stood there, flanked by three of his t

kicking over a lamp. "And she tried t

elevision. They ripped Caleb's drawings from the refrigerat

hallway, unable to m

parents, my father proud in his Army uniform. A picture of Andr

tel, sending the framed photos crashing to the floor. The glass shattered. He stomped on th

I ran at him, not thi

y head hit the plaster with a sickening crack. The room swam. He hit m

as I lay there, in my ribs, my sto

ball, trying t

ted in a drunken, vicious grin. He w

this is, bitc

"ashes" his father's people had sent

l over the news," Barney said

ed the

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my mouth. It coated my bruised and tear-strea

orever," he mocked, as his

urinate on the floor next to my head, the foul stre

k of you and your d

hall as I lay there, broken, covered in the de