The Year I Forgot My Parents
Language: en
My parents always said that kids were nature’s punchlines—born specifically to be the subject of their entertainment. That was why, every year on my birthday, they played a prank on me. My first birthday, a jack-in-the-box that screamed instead of singing. My second, they locked me in the laundry room with the non-venomous but terrifying pet boa constrictor. My third, they took me to the amusement park and forced me to wander through the most intense haunted house by myself. I grew to dread my birthday. But on my sixth birthday, nothing happened. My mom and dad even had my favorite…