December 2013

Christmas in a bar

The call to come home pierced his empty soul. It was from his 12-year-old son

I drank socially until I was 9 years old. I sipped the beers of adults at parties and enjoyed small tastes of my mom’s whiskey sours—they were liquid candy! Alcohol made me feel a part of; but mostly I just liked the effect.

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