I feel my mother within me.

Father and brother watch for signs, indications of affliction, keeping their distance.

Mother loathes me seeing a female version of father and brother: perfect Christian, tormentor, captor.

I am tenuous middle ground, like all but unique. Neither pious nor pitiful, both sinner and saint.

PM Drummond is a full-time writer at heart who works 40 plus hours a week as an IT project manager for a large university. She has two short stories published and is currently working on a six book paranormal series.