The Collectors: Stories by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2023-09-19T00:00:00+00:00

This Is the Story of Building a Tank

I have been building a tank since my sister went missing. A tank minus the gun turret. I have no use for a weapon like that. I don’t want to kill; I just want to get out safe. Not like my dead mother. She had a gun that she kept in her closet before she married my actual dad. Before I began as a mistake in her belly. Then she had me, and I was her weapon against him. To make him marry her. To keep him obedient. To demand he give her the moon when he couldn’t even afford the sky. She used me often, and with precision, so he had to leave to find a surgeon who wasn’t a surgeon.

My sister said The Model Citizen liked that my dead mother was a wannabe sniper, but not the real thing. It’s easier to control something that doesn’t know its actual power. He stockpiled her ammunition with his White last name and bleaching of her past. She did a victory lap when we moved in. She doesn’t know how many tunnels He has dug beneath the floor and between the walls. That each of them leads to every room my sister and I have slept in. Because how could a mother know such a thing and throw confetti when He walks in the door after work?

I had to build a tanque because she became smaller in this house big enough to brag about in a magazine, even with her tiny closet.

Smaller and smaller. Until one day, she died.

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