Shadowman (Alabaster Penitentiary #5)

Shadowman (Alabaster Penitentiary #5)

Author: Nyla K Listening Length: 25h 1m

For three years, I’ve resided in Alabaster Penitentiary. Surrounded by the same faces day in and day out, the deranged souls I now call my friends. We eat our meals together, shower together… Hell, we even fool around on occasion. Still, after all that, not one of them truly knows me. It’s my fault. I’m a withdrawn...

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F or my sixth birthday, my parents gave me a stuffed bear.

Now, I should preface this by saying that receiving gifts in our household was a rarity. There were no presents, wrapped up in colorful paper under a twinkling Christmas tree. No toys accompanied by balloons and sugary confections to celebrate another year on this planet.

The things I got from my parents weren’t fun. I’d come to expect nothing more than torment; scars, both physical and emotional.

So when I got the teddy bear, my first thought wasn’t that I was probably technically too old for a stuffed animal, nor was it the normal unenthused reaction of a child receiving a basic birthday gift.