Fire Fighter

Photo by Daniel Tausis on Unsplash

Emilio leaned against his locker after school one day, contemplating the rest of his life. It was pretty heavy for an 11th-grader, but he knew the reality. He was no ordinary 17 year old. At the age of 3, his mother had lost it and set fire to his house in attempts to kill both him and his father. Some sort of delayed postpartum depression.

Luckily, she failed and was admitted to Glendale’s Mental Institute indefinitely. Emilio visited on…