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Tag: acceptance

In One Breath

In One Breath

A cop informed me that my son was both homosexual and dead. Shot at a bar he had apparently haunted.

“Will you accept the body?” the cop asked.

A thousand bats’ wings pulsed inside me before I said “No.”

Posted on November 1, 2017November 1, 2017Categories Gay, microstories, Nonfiction, Sociology, writing promptsTags acceptance, secrets, shame, tragedies6 Comments on In One Breath
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