Write a story about the relationship between a parent and a child that spans several years.

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“17 Years” by Tedi Carey

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The story I’m about to tell is true. It really has happened, and in a very real sense continues to unfold to this very day.It all began on a specific day, November 1, 1999. As I recall, I had just gotten home from the gym and a strenuous workout. I had just stepped out of the shower when the phone rang. It was one of those phone calls that every parent dreads. The local police called to tell me that they had my 16 year old son in custody. They were bringing him home just for the purpose of searching his bedroom. Numbly I disconnected the cal...

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“Evan” by June ✾

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The BeginningHe's beautiful.I gaze down at the small, pudgy figure nestled in my arms, his bare skin warm and slightly wet. Never had I ever held a baby before, much less my own. I can't help but gawk in awe at him, trying to wrap my brain around the fact that he, this ridiculously adorable creature, is my own creation.His eyes are the most fascinating things I have ever gazed upon in my life. They're the same color as his father's — the vast, intriguing shade of the Pacific Ocean. His eyelashes are abnormally long; they curl back to brush t...

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“The Piano Teacher's Son” by Norine Moore

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The Piano Teacher's SonThe wagon lurched drunkenly over the dusty dirt road, every bump from every rock and pothole sending daggers of pain into Fanny’s already mangled heart. Every rotation of the wheels meant the travelers were another meter closer to the Hardigree homeplace, and to Fanny giving up the one she loved most. Reg chattered excitedly, his five year old countenance alight with excitement. This was the first trip he had ever taken, the farthest he had ever strayed from the comfortable two story home in Atlanta. As he eagerly...

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“Rockabye Lullabye” by Courtney Harler

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When you were a newborn, I watched you sleep. I cradled you, rocked you, nursed you. Three weeks into life, you broke out in hormonal acne, and I studied each tiny spot like a birthmark. I also studied your actual birthmarks: the strawberries on your neckline, the hemangioma on your arm, the oval freckle on your big toe. Your skin was too thin, your breath so shallow, your veins like blue spiderwebs. You were so gorgeously original--so wholly new to this world, to me. I feared and wept and was the kind of happy unhappy only a mother could be...

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“Only Kidding Around” by Rachel Van Dongen

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Mary-Anne Grant was a woman on a mission. Her mission was to give birth and go home in the span of ten hours or even less. Ignoring the fact that she had been in labour for several hours now, she figured it was time for the baby to be born, and she was determined to present her husband with a bouncing baby boy and rub that in her neighbour and long-time rival's face. Just because Caroline Walter had given her husband two baby boys didn't eliminate Mary-Anne from her neighbourhood "I can raise better children than you" club. Not that such a t...

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“Heavy Pink Sheets” by Nick L.

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She loved her daughter. Of course, most mothers did, but Ellie loved Maria especially. More than most mothers. Each night, they’d sit by the crackling fire burning in a loose wire cage, curled under a blanket made of silk strands, their backs pressing the hardwood floors. Always after some sort of delightful dinner prepared by Ellie from the plants in the fields and gardens that Maria gathered. They would sit as the night fell, talking about dreams of traveling around the world, colorful new things they could do with the farm animals, painti...

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“Us” by Mphatso Nkhoma

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When you see us you see twins. You see a woman and her sister, a heart and its soul. Then you open us, lay us arms akimbo and realise that we are made of the same intensity, fed from the same milk. Our hearts steeled to the same nonsense, our minds empathizing to the tears. Yet to each other we are bulls. Unwilling and unyielding. Lost in the sea of misunderstanding, hanging on to the fragile hope of reconciliation. Why has our relationship strained and struggled to rebuild? Is it because we are twins just born in different eras? Is it becau...

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“My First Baby” by Ellen Rosenberger

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My first introduction to David Luke Rosenberger was a sound. A helpless cry. He was placed on my bare chest and I was in shock. From somewhere I heard the doctor say “Varoncito!” A little boy. A precious, healthy, breathing little boy. I couldn’t believe he was here. His cries were sharp and loud. But they carried life and wonder. My baby, my first baby, was here. And he was a boy. Of course, he was a boy, I thought. He joined six boy cousins. No girls in the family yet. Of course he would be a boy. On top of that, every Nicaraguan had confi...

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“Ignorance and Realization” by Jessie Val

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Sandra pulled into the driveway of her mother’s old beaten up rancher. She hasn’t seen her mother in about eight months. Always too busy to call or stop by. Sandra worked in the city only fifty miles from her old neighborhood. She wanted to get further but could never shake off the need to be in driving distance of her mother. When she turned eighteen and graduated from high school she zoomed off to the first college that accepted her, wanting to leave everything behind for good. Over her semesters at school she realized that she didn’t want...

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“"Pews"” by Tari Kason

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"Come, come quickly," I follow your deep, rumbling voice around the side of the building. My light laughs seem so quiet in the wide expanse around us. It is morning, so only waning bits of light seep through the old cracks in the wood as you search. I look around in case someone will make fun of you, but our only company is miles of waving grass. "Look here, Angie." you call. Someone dug a small hole into the building's side. Above it, they layered boards on top of each other for support. A gentle hand reaches out and cups the back of my hea...

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“Living With You” by Abbie Unite

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'Aaand... done.' A single straight line on the wall scratched in pencil. Mira didn't exactly understand why he insisted on doing this, Sean would never grow. The 'ten year old' held out his hand and to which she handed him the utensil. He eyeballed different sections of the wall right under, drawing soft lines every now and then.'What exactly are you doing?' She asked as she gently threw the storybook she used as a guide onto one of the many cardboard boxes. "If we wanna sell the idea that we've lived a normal life, then this ...

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“Too Late” by Faisal Murad

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“What time is it?” I had asked the question for the third time, and for the third time, very patiently, the passenger sitting beside me had pointed to the giant clock that separated the inbound train tracks from outbound. The clock had just clicked three in the afternoon. The wooden bench began to bite my bottom, and I began to squiggle. Although the gentleman sitting beside me did not feel any bites from the bench, he was bothered by my squiggling. He lowered the newspaper he was reading, looked at me over his glasses, and then resumed his ...

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“Redemption” by Earvin Eugene

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RedemptionSubtitle: Who Is Going To Save Me From Myself?By Earvin Eugene Chapter 1: ExperiencesA guy meets a young girl. He is introduced to her through a friend. They like him, because he has a car and they do not. Little did they know he would want something in return. It was a double date across the town. All four picked up food at the drive thru and parked themselves at the park at night. They spit the shit and ate the food. Young, they were glad to just be away from their parents’ supervision. Out in the world, in what seemed like ...

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“Beyond the Physical ” by Garni Tatikian

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It is well known that the mother-child relationship predates the actual birth of the baby. Their bond during the pregnancy goes far beyond the basic nourishment required to grow. During the second trimester, a baby will start to hear a mother’s voice and heartbeat. Listening to these sounds actually helps trigger the growth of the auditory cortex, the part of the brain responsible for interpreting sound. After their birth, newborn babies recognize and are soothed by their mothers’ voices. The fetus also reacts to the emotional responses of t...

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“Mama” by Anisah H

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The first word I ever said was Mama. I obviously don’t remember this, but Mama told me about it. She was in the kitchen; I was playing on the living room floor. She couldn’t see me, nor did she want to, worried that if she averted her eyes for even a second the milk would boil over, but I was close enough that she could hear my babbling. “mmgg…mMammaa” The milk did end up boiling over and took a while to remove Mama reported. My first memory was also Mama. I remember that one well. I remember the clear skies and sunshine, ironically ple...

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Write a story about the relationship between a parent and a child that spans several years.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 122 stories

“17 Years” by Tedi Carey

“Evan” by June ✾

“The Piano Teacher's Son” by Norine Moore

“Rockabye Lullabye” by Courtney Harler

“Only Kidding Around” by Rachel Van Dongen

“Heavy Pink Sheets” by Nick L.

“Us” by Mphatso Nkhoma

“My First Baby” by Ellen Rosenberger

“Ignorance and Realization” by Jessie Val

“"Pews"” by Tari Kason

“Living With You” by Abbie Unite

“Too Late” by Faisal Murad

“Redemption” by Earvin Eugene

“Beyond the Physical ” by Garni Tatikian

“Mama” by Anisah H

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