MY TABOO STEP DADDY
As if psyched to him, the Canines prowl to Mom: tongue wiping teeth, cut-out tails wagging for orders, with a feral hunger in their eyes.
I once owned an Akita, before it died from cancer. These aren’t couch dogs, but blood-lust predators, bred for violence.
You don’t pat them, you give them bodies. They bathe in the blood of Tristan’s enemies. Silencing screams behind iron bars, snapping bones like twigs.
I call them graves with bellies. The monsters that ate my Dad.
Mon whimpers with fire in her eyes.
Good, don’t let him see you break. You taught me that. Now, I need you to endure for us.