Stories tagged “Parenthood”
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Diapers
The baby wailed immensely, alone. Daddy spat, “I will no longer condone your defecation.”
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The Delay
I cried for six months when she refused to get the abortion. It was a mistake. We met at a party, we were both drunk, things happened, I don’t want to be a dad. It was around the sixth month that I finally grew to accept my fate. Six months later...
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First Generation
“I’ll be back by second sunset!” She says this as if she isn’t naked but for a pair of prosthetic antennae. Our waxy apartment is small enough that I can reach over from the kitchen to keep the door closed. “Where do you t...
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Baby Shoes
The building is huge and noisy, I keep my eyes away from those of the people standing next to their commission and the smell of Cinnabon lingers in the air around us. I smile at Em and give her had a squeeze. “We have to get a present for Dawn, h...
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While It Lasts
She cries and cries, little thing perched up on the bench while the doctor gives her the shot. I don’t know what I’m supposed to be doing. She screams like someone is cutting her arm off. The pediatrician holds her gently to keep her from f...
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"Daddy, I want breakfast"
“Daddy, I want breakfast!” Inwardly I wince. Through my eyelids I see that morning is here, if barely. I struggle through the tatters of my dreams. It’s time to move, sit up, stagger out of bed. The cool morning air robs the warmth of...
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Planned to be Disasterous.
It wasn’t supposed to happen this way, we had done this numerous times before. The life that I finally grown comfortable with was plummeting to the ground; to it’s death. Nothing was ever going to be the same, we had already begun the proce...