"My parents were killed when I was nineteen"

orphans

"My parents were killed when I was nineteen. The propane tank on the trailer home somehow exploded, chewed them up in a bright blue flame. 'Poor girl,' people said. I was sad, but everyone else seemed sadder, which I didn’t understand. People die. That’s what they do..."

"Orphans," the new story by Douglas Light, is live now on our site.