Thankfully Jared’s brother Conner’s ex-girlfriend and her brother step in and become the family Jared should have had all along. Of course, this is supposedly Jared’s own fault. When Jared is woken from a deep sleep after working all night, he says the wrong thing to the wrong person, and hell rains down on him in the form of his father’s fists and feet. Since Jared makes such a handy donkey on which to pin the tail of blame, they do so at every opportunity. I have never seen a collection of people so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions.
And Jared’s family, including his twin brother, have used this to bully and abuse Jared his entire twenty-three years of life. Many of us, myself included, can empathize with this ‘foot in mouth’ syndrome because we either have a colander where our brain to mouth filter should be, or are missing said filter altogether. He just doesn’t think clearly before he speaks. An amazing debut short story which, while being a little over the top in the depiction of Jared’s family, was deeply moving and redemptive. Brooks’ first published work and it shows the promise of a very bright future for this writer. Review: That’s Who I Am is Jayden Brooks’ contribution to the Dreamspinner Press Mended 2014 Daily Dose Anthology. Under their care, Jared begins to heal and learns to trust just enough to act on his attraction to Donovan. Siblings Sophie and Donovan Carrigan step in and offer support, comfort, and a place to call home. Only the timely intervention of Sophie, his twin Conner’s ex-girlfriend, saves him. But one day, his mouth lands him in a position that nearly costs him his life. Always a bit different, he’s learned to accept an existence on the outside looking in. Accept no one’s definition of your life define yourself.” ― Robert Frostīlurb: Jared Winters’s life has been little more than a collection of moments where he didn’t think before opening his mouth.
Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
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