My Daddy Loved Me When He Was High

Love was real. The hurt was realer. But so was her strength.

Nia Carter has spent her life learning the difference between her father’s regular sick and his scary sick. When a late-night call tells her that Dice has overdosed again, she returns to the hospital carrying every promise, disappearance, and second chance that shaped her childhood.

Dice loved his daughter fiercely. He taught her to ride a bicycle, made hardship feel temporary, and always seemed one good decision away from becoming the father she needed. But love never made him safe, and every rescue taught Nia to treat his survival as her responsibility.

Now Nia is a mother, and her nine-year-old son has begun recognizing the same warning signs she learned as a child. As buried truths surface and old loyalties fracture, Nia must decide whether protecting her father is worth passing his emergencies to another generation.

My Daddy Loved Me When He Was High is an emotionally charged urban family drama about addiction, abandonment, dangerous love, generational trauma, and the boundary between forgiveness and access.

Some love is real. That does not mean it is safe.