Victims Make the Best Birdhouses by Larry L Franklin

Trauma is a vampire, but light, as any student of folklore or Freud knows, will kill it. The problem is, when the shell- shocked try to exhume their memories—to bring them into the light—the result can be a death struggle so fierce they may fear it’s them, not the suckling pain that’s about to die.

—Katherine Russell Rich

The Red Devil: A Memoir About Beating The Odds