Jarden Jones

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“Last Summer of Childhood” by Jarden Jones

Submitted to Contest #214

I am three-years-old and have a 104-degree fever burning off my hearing but it will be a year or so after I kill my mommy before anyone notices. Mommy is making me take an ice cube bath. She calls the doctor once or twice a week about stuff but he don’t listen to her no more. He just tells her I’ll be fine, to fill the tub with ice and plop me in till I cool off. So that’s how Daddy finds us, me all over blue and Mommy on her knees crying next to the toilet. Daddy takes one look at me then we are running every light and s...

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