Tag: Family Fiction
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What Do I Feed This Baby?
Unpublished short fiction My wife found out she was pregnant using a home pregnancy test and we were excited. Three days later, before she’d even gone to see her doctor to confirm it, she went to a party to celebrate her friend’s adoption of an infant, which was brought back from Thailand. It was a…
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We Are All Made of Water
Unpublished short fiction So my parents settled in tiny, flat Gulfwind, Florida, a sleepy town a hundred years past its booming industrial peak. They said they liked the sleepiness and the community and the proximity to my dad’s employer. Then I was born with a dark cloud over my head—an eight pound, eight ounce baby…
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The Auto-Heimlich
Unpublished short fiction Almost every memory I have of Grandma Jo, going back to when I was a little boy, is of her choking. And I don’t mean that in a euphemistic way; I mean Grandma Jo was always choking—wheezing and struggling to breathe, turning blue in the face, waving her arms to get the…
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The Broken Path
Forthcoming in subTerrain Grandpa died face-down in a pot of chili. It’s a family legend. They told that story every Thanksgiving and all the children loved it. I was four when Grandpa Jim passed away but what I remember from that day is seeing my own father sobbing into a couch cushion, not knowing why…