Emily Schiemann

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“In These Walls ” by Emily Schiemann

Submitted to Contest #107

Alice was born on a Tuesday, at 3:13 in the morning. Her mother, Mona, screamed and pushed and did all of the usual things, and Alice appeared outside of her body and into the bathtub three seconds after the minute hand clicked into place around the clock that hung in the next room over. Her father, Paul, would tell her the story that way. He had tried to be there in the bathroom for the birth of his first daughter, but had been sent away by Mona and her nurse after nearly cracking his skull on the toilet seat in a fainting spell. He sequest...

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