Michael Van Citters

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“Eleven Minutes Past Nine” by Michael Van Citters

Submitted to Contest #125

Four minutes past nine. “Would you stand over here, Mr. Paige? That’s right, just here, thank you, Mr. Paige.” It had never occurred to Andrew Paige that his wife would give birth as late in the day as past nine o’clock at night and, until Lisa, his wife, had gone into labor only several hours prior, he had always thought of childbirth as the sort of thing that happens only in the morning, or perhaps in the middle of the day, leaving plenty of time for tea and supper after the baby had been delivered. At odds with this strange notion, th...

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