I was angry that you didn’t correct me. Angry that I had to babysit you while Daddy worked. Angrier still that you didn’t remember me, didn’t know my name.
Author
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Patty Ireland holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and is an Associate Professor of English at Pellissippi State Community College, where she directs the College’s annual Young Creative Writer’s Workshop. Ireland is a published writer of short stories and poems as well as an established BMI lyricist/composer. Her work has appeared in Still: The Journal, Appalachia Bare, and the anthology 23 Tales: Appalachian Ghost Stories, Legends and Other Mysteries, among others. She is currently at work on both a debut novel and a memoir.