justdustwords

 Excerpt from my novel FATE.                                                               Hard to Be a Child                                     It was always the innocent children of a ‘wedlock, stock, and barrel’ who could hone their survival reasoning by sensing the tension within the home. Ask the infamous Captain Crabbe about his childhood, and he will tell you that body language was the first language he learned in order to survive in the Crabbe household.        The act of being born is an essential aspect of human existence, yet it is one that occurs without the consent or choice of the child. Children enter the world as a result of...