Because they're family is all that Mike got whenever he complained about sharing toys with some lousy cousin from the sticks. As a teenager, he saw it as a fat lie. He was gay. Families like his hated queers.
When he came out, they just shrugged—he was family.
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This blog was inspired by First 50 words where you freewrite from a single word prompt. I use random words or images to create flash fiction in formats ranging from twitter postcards to short short stories.