My Amazing Mother
In her angry, drunken rage, my mom violently tore fur off my cat.
She wanted to go outside and he was sitting in front of the door. But instead of kindly asking him to move aside, or nudging him over, like a normal person, she stepped on his tail. With tears in his eyes, he ran away, and in doing so, a large chunk of fur was cruelly detached from his tail.
He never spoke again…