William Falo — The Monarch Review

Strays – William Falo

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 13:03 — 1 Comment

Blood trickled down my arm when I added another name with a jagged piece of glass. It was the fifth family that gave me back to the system since I entered it when my parents disappeared, but this time I wasn’t going back to foster care. Even going back wouldn’t help since I would be eighteen in a month and put on the streets. Night fell like a curtain dropping on a bad act and I reconsidered going back to my last home, but the foster mother said she was terminally ill and couldn’t care for me anymore. Lies. Nobody […]