It was late in the evening and I had a stomach ache. But it wasn’t a normal stomach ache, it was the kind that wrenched my insides as if something were being wrung out like a wet towel. The pain was overwhelming, but I swore and clenched my fists in the bedsheets. It went on for hours before I felt something start to change; I listened to what my body was telling me, screaming, and then you were h...

Another fleeting glance. Another shiver. Shivers don’t belong in the balmy evening warmth of summer… but this one did.

All Hallows’ Eve had long since fled. Waiting to once again herald the return of All Hallows’ Day. Yet something had awoken that creeping sense of dread.

You knew it as you fled. They knew it as they took up the chase.

If they were a horse, they would have taken up the bit.

...

She remembered the first time she held her baby boy. She remembered the slight weight of his little body pushing against her arms. She remembered being so scared because he looked so fragile and she never wanted to hurt him.

She remembered thinking that there was nothing as perfect as beautiful as her baby. He was amazing no one would ever replace him.

She remembered the first time he cried. It br...

Before the sun was up I felt the trickle

So scared, I turned to him

“It’s time to go”

Every bump

Every turn

Felt deep in my body

And then there was a pop

A gush

A puddle

The pain that never came

My body didn’t work like that

They wheeled me away and sliced at my belly

Not what I’d hoped for

But still, you were here.

I cried

You cried

And you were mine

The perfect of the world

Was in my arms

I ne...

She’d waited so long, and so patiently.

She didn’t care when the doctors had told her she couldn’t helped.

She didn’t care when she was told she would be killed.

She didn’t care when her family had left and she was quarantined.

It was just her and the baby, and she couldn’t wait another moment longer. He was coming, she could feel it and she knew the rest of the world could too.

Long slo...

The startling cry fills the too full room, already brimming with heaving breaths and panting screams and a mother’s smile.

The baby, a girl, a 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭, screams her newborn life for the world to hear, echoing in the room, in her heart.

She’s small and squealing and perfect, eyes already scrunched closed with the exhaustion of surviving.

It’s 8:52 A.M. and the young mother knew her life had change...

Drip-drip.

That sound was insufferable, constantly beating on the Gravedigger's skull like a hammer.

Drip-drip.

He wanted it to stop so badly, he wanted just to sleep and to forgot, to forgot his troubles and his worries, to just fall into Charlene's arms and have them protect him from the bad men and their cattle prods and their shotguns.

She was there now, staring down at him, offering her ...

She stands at the alter, her head held high while trying not to cry. Her soon-to-be husband stands across from her. Their eyes are locked and everybody can feel the amount of love circling between them.

He takes her hands in his and begins to recite his vows, and halfway through some stray tears tumble down her cheeks. She still looks beautiful, though.

Once he finishes, she begins her vows. T...

First birth was hard. She didn’t want to come out and play. I pushed her for 3+ hours of hard pushing. We told the dr before hand that we didn’t want to use the forceps or vacuum unless absolutely medically required for life saving procedures. So I pushed and pushed.

Number two was much easier. I barely pushed and he slithered out so fast the dr almost dropped him.

I kind of want the experience...

you were born, and then you were gone

that moment felt like heroin to me

but then, i overdosed

i just wanted to know what you felt like...