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Write a day-in-the-life-story about a first-time parent and their newborn child.

Posted in Adults on Oct 26, 2022

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The Newborn's Escape

Submitted to Contest #56

☆𝓛𝓘𝓣𝓐☆Lita was lying on a bed in the hospital room. Her newborn child, Kai, was sleeping in a bassinet near her bed. He was so small and beautiful.How? How could these people think of killing an innocent newborn?She remembered the exact words the doctor said the day Kai was born.‘He is underweight, he is not healthy, he won’t last long.’Last long? Kai is not some kind of manufacturing product. He is a baby and it isn’t his fault that he was born underweight.  Then the situation got even worse when the Citizons came. They read the l...

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Goddess child (part 1)

Submitted to Contest #56

I think it's best not to question this or how its possible, this is a thing with god's and goddess's and theres ton of weird stuff with them just enjoy it. even though she's not really a new-born either i hope this counts. Indigo hadn't expected to be a mother of a demi-god child. She hadn't thought she was EVER going to be a type of mother at all. She just thought that maybe in her 30's or 40's she'd find a man and get together. Maybe even have twins together if they both ever wanted kids. Though here she was, Barely in her 20's as she ...

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The Love and Hate Life of Momma

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I see Momma typing quietly over at the computer from the other side of the room where I lay in my cage, or playpen as she likes to call it. The house is so clean that you would think a guest of royal descent were about to walk through the door. She seems completely ignorant of my presence for over a second now so of course, I know that this is the perfect time to let out my signature ear-bleeding cry, with added salty tears for that special touch. Immediately that grabs her attention as she looks over towards me with full responsiveness. She...

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Sink and swim, repeat.

Submitted to Contest #56

Congratulations, reads the first page of the self-help book, you have survived all of your hardest days. I can't help but laugh. My precious little Lucy is six weeks old. She cries, wails and bleats her way into the early evening. Recently, like a week ago, she awoke to the world. She became aware of this unpleasant reality, no longer sheltered in my warm, tight womb. It's cold out here. It's bright. It smells funny. It's dry. It's too noisy at times and at others, not noisy enough. She has decided that she doesn't like it. Not one...

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Nameless

Submitted to Contest #56

10/2 Dear My Future Child,  Once you are born, I will grow old as fast as the autumn leaves shrivel and die. Your mother will wonder why they’re welcoming winter so early this year, but I will suspect it’s because of you. She will die, your mother. From childbirth. Because of you.  This is why I will hate you.  The seasons will hate you. Your mother was one of them, once. She was an embodiment of Autumn, burying her browning skin and fiery hair into the leaves, camouflaging perfectly. That’s why it was always hard to find...

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The Song of the Crickets

Submitted to Contest #56

The melody of the crickets drifted into the open windows of Dawn’s cottage house. She often left her windows open to invite the calming night air and smells of dampened grass. The aroma would drift in and sneak up her nose, calming her on the sleepless nights, especially when she was pregnant. Now, she laid on her back staring up at the ivory, textured ceiling. The crickets’ songs no longer sounded like a lullaby, but instead sounded like a warning. Her heart pounded as she stroked the bumpy scar on the bottom right corner of her belly. Th...

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Under the Shady Birch

Submitted to Contest #56

It was strange, this misshapen lump on the ground beside me. After a few cursory sniffs, I confirmed that it was indeed mine. I stood there for a while, looking around. I had chosen this spot specifically for this day. It was beside a large meadow that rolled slowly down to a silently moving river in the distance. I liked watching the tall, yellow-green grass waving gently in the wind, the purple and white flowers dancing with it. I was in a small hollow under a thicket of birch on the outskirts of the forest. The thick shrubbery surrou...

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Life Unexpected

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I was dating this girl; her name was Jade. Jade Williams. We hit it off immediately. After dating for about five years, we got engaged and Jade became pregnant. We were so happy. I thought everything was going great but there came life, changing everything.About seven months after Lia was born, the great life we once knew was gone. Just like that. We had all went to bed like it was any other night. In the morning, I got up and got dressed in comfy clothes and smiled knowing that I'd get to stay with Jade and Lia today because Sunday was my d...

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Ten Months

Submitted to Contest #56

There was silence in my house for the first time in ten months. Although I knew I should feel relieved, my body was numb, and it hurt to think. I tossed and turned in my king-size bed, fidgeting until even my sheets fell off. I’d planned on getting a mattress protector a year back, but then the baby had arrived a month early.When I’d given birth, they’d taken the baby from me, said she wasn’t breathing. I sat in that hospital bed, alone, trying to stop tears from pouring and blurring my vision. Jeremy had left me as soon as he found out I wa...

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We called him Mikey

Submitted to Contest #56

Holding him in my arms gave me a feeling I couldn’t define. Every time I thought I’d found the word, it suddenly felt lacking or not big enough. People had told me it would be like this, but still, I wasn’t prepared.Who could prepare for one tiny being to change their entire life? I'd known I had a baby coming. I’d known for more than eight months, but he’s everything I imagined and so much more. He is precious beyond words.I don’t want to let go of him. The nurses hover much too long. Since they won’t let me hold him while they push on my s...

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The Greatest Gift Of All

Submitted to Contest #56

I am going to become a mother.A mother, to a newborn baby. I’m going to raise a child; how do you do that? How do you raise a child?I’m barely out of college and sing and write songs for a living, I can’t be a mother.My fingers shake uncontrollably at my sides as I lay in my hospital bed. Worries flying through my head like songbirds. I squeeze the thin sheets in my fists, the papery fabric crinkling noisily under me.Cool air from the vents above my head, dances across my damp face, my heart beating rapidly. My hospital room is small and whi...

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A life full of sketches

Submitted to Contest #56

I have always wanted to be an artist. To capture the most beautiful moments in people’s lives – with a brush and paint, or simply a pen and paper. I once thought that the sight of my paintings would bring heaven on earth. Make a sad soul cheerful. I started out as a pizza delivery guy after graduation. It’s not what I had in my mind but it turned out to be an interesting adventure. Thomas would sneak alcohol and cigars every Saturday. I once saw him smoke during working hours and I let him. That’s how we become friends, partners in crime....

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The Arcane Truth of Neon Light

Submitted to Contest #56

Tranquil Travels Motel blends in with the barren desert. Dust covered and soul-draining. Its neon sign glows a deep blue, creating the only light for miles and adds a drunken glow to the worn stone pathway, spreading out across the land with a somber intensity, in competition with the twilight stars. It sways, buzzing, blue and blurry in the stiff and deadpan air.  A mirage, a fever dream, sauntering away from reality. A silhouette rambles down the road, enticed like a moth to a flame, perhaps it is the urge to escape the deafening ...

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Learning Curve

Submitted to Contest #56

Here’s a woman in her thirties. She is intelligent, attractive, has a great career. She has also just had her first baby. It’s a cute little thing. This woman, who is now a mother and has a name, doesn’t know yet whether her child is male, female, or unisex. She didn’t want to know before the birth, and she doesn’t care now. Of course that might have to change, with diapers and all that, right? The woman is shocked to see this tiny being next to her, curled up in the crook of her left arm like a little kitten. Maybe it is a kitten? It’s ce...

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Andrew, Andrew, He’s Our Man!

Submitted to Contest #56

(Write a day-in-the-life-story about a first-time parent and their newborn child.) Picture this, if you will!   I’m a seventeen year old boy, chuck full of energy and hormones!  Until recently, I lived for sports and played my heart out for whatever team I was on.  Then the dreaded hormones kicked in,  not only did my face break out with all kinds of ugly but also I became very distracted from my games by cheerleaders, blondes hanging around playing with their hair and giggling girls in general. My game became mediocr...

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