The tension was noticeable the afternoon after that morning. It would be a couple of hours before the mandatory meeting where we would all find out the cause of the tension. Another several hours would pass before the first news reporter would make her way to the steps of the...

It should have clicked when my father blew up his house. Okay, maybe not the entire house but enough to blow out windows and rip the corners' embrace from each other, exposing the street from the living room. What saved his life that day was a very thick door which...