I Came Home From Work and Found My Baby in a Condition I Will Never Forget – The Archivist

terror of a child whose body is not doing what she needs it to do, her arms moving in the uncoordinated way that is not swimming, not playing, not learning. She was drowning.

I grabbed her arm and pulled and kicked and we broke the surface together and she seized onto me the way people seize onto things when they have been very close to not existing continue reading …