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Weekly Contest #261
Trigger Warnings Include: Death of a mother during childbirth, death of a child The phone rang. I didn’t pick it up. The phone rang again and again. I never picked it up. Instead, I rolled over in bed and put pillows on my ears. I knew who it was. I knew why she was calling me. If I picked up the phone, I would be brought back into a life of pain I had escaped three years ago. I turned over in bed and looked at Daniel. His pack-and-play was too expensive to check with our luggage, so my little son had to sleep in the hotel’s king bed with m...
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