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Tiny Packages

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You are here: Home » Tiny Packages Christopher, Blake and Nico, April 13, 2019 photo shoot. April 28, 2019 I'm a dad again. My 2 other boys were born 10 years ago, so I don't recall if I'm doing fatherhood differently in these early stages of my newest son's young life. These tiny packages are so fragile. The thought of Nico and Christopher being the size of Blake amazes me. Both those boys are in the full swing of youth. Their legs are getting longer. The feet are bigger. Arms are stretching. And they throw each other around as if they are constantly on a trampoline. But this new tiny package can fit in a shoe box. His hands are dwarfed by the size of my hands. My fingers clumsily play with his fingers. His feet disappear in my palms. His heart is housed in that tiny chest. And every time it beats, I fall in love repeatedly. I'm 6 foot 3 inches tall. I imagine him reaching beyond my height. He is a size that will move the air with his long gait. But thi...

Jack's Shadow, redux

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You are here: Home » Jack's Shadow, redux Christopher with Nico on Nico's 11 birthday! February 28, 2019 Can be intense.  A long read. I wrote this a few years back however, now it is updated and revamped into a new story.  There is 2 other parts but I will see the response from this one before I release the others  - cpf 3,147 words March 1, 2019 The sterile hallway reaches end-to-end, which must be 200 feet. Every 8 feet, there's an iron door. Each door is fortified to hold back a hideous,sick-minded,d or evil person. The facility isn't something you can Google. Other than the locals who are hired to run the place, not many people realize the heinous and brutal death that has occurred by some of those locked in those rooms outside this town of 5,000 souls. "This door," she said, pointing over her left shoulder," is where we keep Jack." A woman said to a group huddled in the hallway just outside the door of the evil that dwelle...

Beinvenido Blake!

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You are here: Home » Beinvenido Blake! Nico, Christopher and baby Blake in the hospital room.  February 11, 2019. February 28, 2019 My new son was born a couple of weeks ago. I wasn't sure if I wanted kids since I was already a father of 2 young boys , but the  moment the newest addition to our family was born, I felt proud to know how lucky to be able to welcome another child into this world.  However, he was born a month early, so that was a big surprise. That Saturday morning, my wife woke me up and told me she thought she had peed on the bed.  "Ugh, it's so early. 5:30 A.M., to be exact. Let's just swap places, or better yet, I'll go to the couch, and we will worry about this in a few hours." My wife told me she was up and couldn't fall back to sleep.  When I got up 3 hours later, she informed me that her water may have broken because she had continued leaking like a faucet.  We examined the bed sheets and looked...

I Woke Up

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You are here: Home » I Woke Up Christopher and Nico after their fresh haircuts. January 25, 2019 January 31, 2019  I died in my dream.  A little disturbing, I know.  When I woke up out of the dream I was sweating, hot and thirsty.  I hope it wasn’t hell! I didn’t hover over my lifeless body.  And I didn’t fall from a high building where I would have surely woken up before I actually struck the ground.   No, death steamrolled over buildings and destroyed terrain on its mission to eradicate my soul and end my life.  Honestly  in the end I gave up.  There was no chance of my escape, no matter how fast I ran away from the thunder that approached me.  Once I realized my death was inescapable, I hunkered down and waited for my grim reality to strike me down.  After death feasted on my conscience, I was pushed into darkness and my dream ended. I regained a sense of awareness and made it through to the o...