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Felicia Cox, October 21st, 2017.

My name is Felicia.

I live with my son in a twice-morgage three-bedroom house at the foot of Verdugo Hills in Glendale, California.

The floors are treated hardwood, the furnishings are vintage,

and lush rose bushes flourish in the backyard.

But since the day I walk through the door and tripped over the blocks,

the place never again felt like home.

My son's name is Benjamin.

He's two years old, soft and adorably pudgy, with dumpling cheeks and a square jaw.

His skin is several shades darker than mine, colored like his Nigerian grandmother,

but his large, deep-set eyes are gray and expressive in a manner reminiscent of my own mothers.

These days, monster stories define my life.

Stories of women with snakes for hair, women with mouths in the back of their heads,

women that turn into bats and horses and sea creatures,

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