He Doesn’t Wanna Be Here
It wasn’t until my mom came over after work and told me my brother had confessed to her that he'd been using heroin for two years and needed help that I knew I’d seen him with a needle in his arm.
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Lindsey Gates-Markel
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Lindsey Gates-Markel (@LGatesMarkel) was born in 1983 in rural Illinois and grew up on a farm. She has done graduate fiction work at the University of Iowa and received an MFA from Lesley University. Her work has most recently been published in Little Fiction, WhiskeyPaper, and Sundog Lit. She writes feelings-y emails through her newsletter, Dear Livejournal: http://tinyletter.com/lindseymarkel.