title: Child Support
author:  Robb Jackson 
description: Robb Jackson is currently the Haas Professor of English at Texas A&amp;M University-Corpus Christi. Robb's poetry originates from his journal writing practice and is informed by close observation of the place he now calls home, Corpus Christi, Texas. Robb also works extensively with addicts and alcoholics in a court-ordered rehabilitation program where he teaches residents poetry and journaling techniques as part of their recovery. Robb's book of poetry, Living on the Hurricane Coast, contains poems that stem from his transition from his northern roots to south Texas. Crane Creek, Two Voices, which contains poems by Robb and Vanessa Furse Jackson, will be published by Fithian Press in summer 2011.
zlib_text: **BE A BAD BOY**
  
  by Lee Brazil
  
  **CHAPTER 1**
  
  Furious, Devyn Strake stalked up the overgrown path to Kayla’s apartment. It
  was his weekend to have Kail. Devyn was stuck with this stupid visitation
  agreement: Wednesday nights, every other weekend and alternate holidays.
  
  He should have had full custody, but instead the judge had decreed that a boy
  of eight months needed his mother more than his father. Bullshit. Kail needed
  him as much as he needed Kail.
  
  2C. He hadn’t been here before, but surely, Kayla could afford better on the
  amount of child and spousal support he’d been required to pay?
  
  He knocked politely on the door, a sharp rap. A noise from inside drifted
  through an open screen window. It only took a moment to recognize the sound as
  the pathetic cries of a baby. He pounded his fists on the grubby door, calling
  out, “Kayla! It’s Devyn. I came to get Kail for the weekend.” There was no
  response, no sound from within but the continued cries. He wasn’t supposed to
  be here. Kayl