The Doors to My Loneliness

My company went bust about four years ago and wiped out all my savings. My dad always thought it was a sign of something deeper. Something that was going to destroy me one day. So whenever I was living at home he smothered me and tried to desperately to keep me around. He's been so lonely since mum died and he is trying to get me to move back in with him. But I have my own life and I can't be there all the time. And I don't like being lied to. The first door I remember seeing that shouldn't have been there must have been when I was five or six. For one awful moment I found myself frozen in a tug of

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