Lucky has always known how to survive. He just never thought he’d have to do it at home.
The Space Between Lives
Lucky has spent his life believing you can keep things separate.
Family in one box. Work in another. The past locked away where it can’t touch the present.
But when violence creeps closer to home and the rules that once kept his world in balance begin to fail, Lucky is forced to make a choice he’s been avoiding for years. Walk away from the life that shaped him — or risk letting it destroy the people he loves most.
As his community tightens its boundaries and old loyalties demand new sacrifices, Lucky discovers that leaving isn’t an escape. It’s a reckoning. And the cost of protecting your family is sometimes being erased from the place you once belonged.
Set against the quiet tensions of a close-knit village and the shadowed edges of organized crime, this is a story about loyalty, consequence, and the fragile line between belonging and survival.
Some doors don’t slam shut.
They close softly — and never open again
“In the junkyard, nothing stays buried. Not secrets. Not loyalties. Not the kind of violence that turns boys into men before they’re ready.”
Sins Of The Father
Some homes teach you how to live. This one teaches you how to survive.
Sins Of The Father
They call it a junkyard.
For some, it’s where broken things go to be forgotten.
For Barbara, it was the first place that didn’t ask where she came from.
Then the boys arrive.
Leo, Donnie, Frankie, and little Vinnie are dropped into the care of men who understand the world far better than children ever should. A priest with secrets behind his gentle smile. An enforcer with violent hands and rules no one explains. An uncle who was never meant to raise anyone.
The junkyard isn’t loud. It isn’t chaotic. It isn’t even cruel.
It’s quiet.
Too quiet.
Here, the boys learn how to survive by watching, listening, and thinking faster than any child should have to. Leo calculates. Donnie jokes. Frankie protects. Vinnie barely speaks at all.
And the men around them are already asking a question no one will say out loud:
Which one of them might make it out alive?
Barbara sees it before they do.
This place isn’t protecting them.
It’s preparing them.
In a kingdom built from rust, secrets, and quiet manipulation, childhood doesn’t end with a bang.
It ends with a lesson.