Angela Lam

Apr 1, 2024 | fiveminutelit.com | Angela Lam

I doubted my eight-year-old daughter Rose when she said she would someday marry a man who would live with and care for her disabled brother, Gabriel. During high school, I watched her date one selfish teen after another. Each one ignored Gabriel. But when my daughter met Luis in a trigonometry class at the junior college, the first thing he did after shaking my hand was ruffle Gabriel’s hair and ask, “What’s up, buddy?” Gabriel glanced up and smiled. Warmth flooded my chest.

Jan 11, 2024 | shepherd.com | Angela Lam |Danya Kukafka |Patricia Highsmith |Julie Clark

Notes on an Execution gutted me as a reader. I became the sociopath on death row with only 12 hours to live. I listened to the women in my life talk about me, from my mother who didn’t understand why I brought her dead animals instead of flowers to my wife who trusted me beyond reason to my brother’s family in whom I had finally found a home until that detective snatched it away from me, leaving me with nothing.