Milestones, by Thomas Mixon - first person POV, bildungsroman, English
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An excerpt from milestones by thomas Mixon first published in Baron magazine, We lived in Brasher, which is about 600 trees or so away from Lewisville. If he went out of our driveway, the left way, it was hard to keep count. My father drove fast and we didn't go there often, Usually just to the graveyard to stand, never sit in front of my grandfather's grave for about 75 breaths or so, which I know wasn't accurate, but I only counted the big ones, but didn't make them too big because I was explicitly told a sigh for the dead's and invitation and then cut it out. I asked my father why we weren't called the brasher leopards. He said marketing with his mouth, but he used the same eyes that he used whenever I exhaled too loud in the graveyard. A kind of nearsighted look more than squinting like he was about to cry. I had written under the father section of the poster board that my father never cried, but my mother made me cross it out. I asked her why doesn't dad get glasses. She responded by crying, which I was going to write under the mother section until she did it then in front of me. I knew she cried a lot, but never when she thought I was awake and actually seeing her do it rather than just hearing made it less real. I was explicitly told to only write things that were true on the poster board