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It Wants My Baby – Chapter Four
I’m trying to find the words to describe what’s been going on, but it all sounds so mad. I managed to get a few hours of sleep last night, waking up when it was still dark, and I could hear this padding on the floor, like someone, or something walking around, but it was all…
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It Wants My Baby – Chapter Two
I can’t believe that I’m writing this. This is more than a dream or a delusion, I know that now. Nobody else can see it, but that doesn’t make it any less real. She came to our flat. Lily came to our home. Nobody believes me, but she was here. I woke up last night,…
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Slipping Through Her Fingers
I blacked out and woke up with bruised knees.For a second,it felt like I was standing on the frame of my brother’s buggy again,peering over the sun guard,to see the world a little better,but, no, I was just back in bed,nursed by a matron who meant well, but had to know she was trying to…
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Watching My Son Sleep
Sleeping safe,grandmother’s blanket by the foot of the bed,crocheted squares crashed to the floor long ago,because just like me,there is fire in your veins,tornadoes tattooed inside of your skin,and you could never stay in one place for too long.I tuck you back in,my throat full of all the things I want to say,but my mind…
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Growing Up
I think wistfully about what I will be like when I grow up. Clean credit cards, a clean sink that gleams, as if it has never glimpsed a dirty dish, a son, settled into sleep (I am so convinced it is a boy), while I write, perched on the windowsill, singing softly to my assorted…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 