Motherless

A WHISPERING VOICE at the BACK of MY MIND REMINDS ME that I?VE BEEN THIS WAY for SOME TIME.DEAD, THAT IS.The dead have a very broad view of the living, of actions performed out of sight, of thoughts believed to be private. I would know. Losing both parents is a trial no child should endure, and Marina and Dylan have endured enough. They deserve the one thing I could never give them: a mother?s love.A mother?s love, and the truth.My children have believed a lie about me for years and years. After all this time I can still feel their hurt in my heart. But the tether holding me to them is frayed from years of neglect . . . and I have to find a way to make my confession before it snaps.But when the truth comes out, what other beasts will I unleash??Why do we lie to the children?? someone asked me once.?To protect them,? I answered.How terrible it is that they need protection from me.

Healy, Erin