A Short Story: How to win Daddy’s Love

The formula isn’t too complicated. The first step is to be the perfect son. Now what the hell does that mean? It means good grades. (Daddy certainly wouldn’t want a child who gets a ‘B+’). It means always doing your chores: taking out the garbage in a manner that left no trace of you having even opened the dumpster, drying dishes until they looked like they belonged next to the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London, and making your bed to the military precision of a West Point cadet. It means helping your younger sister with her pre-Algebra homework and keeping your two idiot younger brothers from beating the snot out of each other over who gets to put the final piece on their LEGO Star Wars’ Star Destroyer. It means helping Mom carry the grocery bags from the car and making dinner twice a week. Then it’s on to college.

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