The Boy with the Horns
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Ongoing, First published May 30, 2015
"When did it start?" The man asked, pushing his glasses up on the bridge of his nose, searching my mother's face with an expression of utmost superiority. I hated him.

My mother's usually storm grey eyes softened. They now looked more like rain opposed to a storm. 

"When he was born," She took a second to take a breath and grip the edge of the sofa until her knuckles were white. "He didn't cry. He came out silent. They thought he was dead." 

Maybe I am. Maybe I was never alive.
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