Sharon Thatcher

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“Bedtime Routine” by Sharon Thatcher

Submitted to Contest #280

TW: Adoption/Birth Mother 6:45 – It is a Tuesday evening. Your bath time. But tonight, instead of running there and leaving your clothes strewn on the floor, you knock your glass off the table in haste, the glistening shards and pieces scattering, the milk running away. You carefully help with a quick clean up job before you ask if we can do this instead of your bath. 6:47 – As you go into the freshly renovated bathroom, you ask again if you can skip your bath tonight. You already know what the answer will be and eventually relent. Naked as ...

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I live in Chilliwack, British Columbia. I recently published a short story in an anthology Another Chance to Get it Right: A New Year's Eve Anthology. I recently completed Curtis Brown Creative's Writing Your Novel course with Suzannah Dunn, and am hoping to complete my historical fiction novel.