A family seems like a precarious thing to use as the basic building block of your society.    Oh, sure, families are nice when everyone is loving and considerate . . .  but when things get bad, they can get very bad.   

Don't believe me?  Go ask the people who work in the justice system just how challenging it can be to work in the domestic court system. 

The truth is, sometimes it's hard to keep the peace and hold the family together, especially when some of the members are already dead . . . like in this month’s featured fiction by Laura Blackwell  . . .