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Submitted to Contest #46
Everyone knows the feeling, even if they’ve not had to experience it yet. The 3am phone call, the opening the door to police on your doorstep feeling. The cold dread. The stomach-dropping, time-stopping feeling you get the second you realise bad news is imminent, but before the unfortunate messenger confirms it. That’s how I felt when I saw my aunts name on my caller ID one bright winters afternoon as I sat at my desk in lower Manhattan. Looking out of the window on the 27th floor, I took a deep breath to steel myself to hear the news o...
Submitted to Contest #43
She leaned in to deeply breathe in the warm, baby powder scent of the sleeping babies head one last time, before kissing his downy brow and laying him back in the bassinet beside her bed. She laid on her side, watching the rhythmic rise and fall of his tiny chest, unable to fall asleep for fear of wasting a moment of committing his perfect face to her memory. Tomorrow they’d both be leaving this cold and sterile room, his life just beginning and hers forever changed.Dawn never really breaks in a hospital, that would suggest there was ever an...
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