"The monsters won't come out and hurt me will they, Daddy?"
"As long as I'm around," he said, giving me a goodnight kiss. "No one will ever hurt you."
"You'll come home tonight right? Promise?"
"I promise."
But he failed to keep his promise. He never came home and the monsters got me after all.
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This is my story, how my father's job and career one night caused him to break the one promise that he always kept the last 10 years. Just a fair warning, it's sad. It might be triggering, as well, so read at your own risk.
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Monsters
General FictionDad never broke one promise to me. Never. But his job had its downsides, and one promise was broken, the last promise he'd ever make to me.... none of us saw it coming.
