Powerful Words
I was locked in a storeroom with no windows.
It was freezing, and I only had a wet shirt on.
Outside, just beyond the wall, the living room was brightly lit. The comforting voice of the family doctor and Mom's scared sobs pierced my ears like poisoned needles.
Late at night, the locked storeroom door clicked open.
Jackie, dressed in a thick down jacket and holding a flashlight, looked down at me, who was stiff from the cold.
"Geez, Henry, why are you lying on the floor like a stray dog?"