The Price of Absence and the $8,400 Text That Ended My Family
The morning air in Mobile had that heavy, salt-cured dampness to it that usually meant a storm was...
Author: Liliana J. Phillips
The Price of a Place and the $34,400 Morning I Walked Out on My Son
The morning air in our part of the county always had that particular dry bite to it by...
The Final Place at the Table and the Morning My Son Lost Everything
The heavy silver butter knife had a small smudge near the scrolled handle that I must have missed...
The Lease on Independence and the 12-Day Birthday Cruise That Cost My Son Everything
I got it wrong for a very long time, thinking that if I just kept my head down,...
The Garage Above the Cul-de-Sac and the $11,200 Birthday Trip That Cost My Son Everything
The morning air in Leesburg had that particular dry bite to it that usually meant the maples were...
The Safe in the Basement and the Twelve-Year Family Lie My Husband Thought Was Buried Forever
My father-in-law Ray died on a Tuesday morning when the humidity down here in Mobile was already sitting...
The Number Under the Tank And the Twelve-Year Bakersfield Secret That Broke My Heart
The grease on a motorcycle frame never really comes out of your skin once you have worked twenty-odd...
The Floor Beneath the Fridge and the Inheritance Fraud That Cost Daniel Everything
The linoleum in that kitchen had a little burn mark right near the dishwasher where a grease fire...
The Ladle and the Rain: Sixteen Years of Silence and the Tuesday My Son Stood in the Pantry Line
The smell of bleach and damp cardboard always clung to the basement of St. Jude’s by nine in...
The Only Name on the Lease and the $604,800 Morning I Walked Out on My Family
The kitchen counter always collected the things we didn’t want to deal with, usually junk mail and past-due...