The Family Album

Trigger Warning: A tale of murder, suicide and child abuse

Nigelleaney
7 min readJun 15, 2024
Photo by Jen Theodore on Unsplash

Dying is easy. It’s the killing that’s hard. You can’t close your eyes, submit to fate and go all fuzzy focused. No, you’re on. It’s your time to move. Camera, action! You must do it with your eyes wide open. Commit. And I hoped it would cure the rage in my head. The stuff that burned in my gut and seared my insides. Stupid…

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Nigelleaney

Recently retired and completed MA in creative writing. Trying for the writer’s life with no more excuses about the day job. Named top writer in music.