This weeks challenge from Reedsy is to put your character in a hostile environment. To that end, I have written a story I called “2 months”.

The story does have sensitive content and it might be triggering. Here is a little excerpt:

“It is the judgment of this court that the young male child be taken from the mother and sent to live with the uncle so that a he can have a strong, stable father figure.”

The words hit like a backhand across the face as young Eric tried to process what his mother was telling him. Tears stung at his eyes while he stood there in the school office while other children watched with a mixture of curiosity and fear.

Eric could hear the trembling in his mother’s voice on the other end of the phone. The knot inside his stomach grew as he doubled over and retched and heaved. The office staff rushed over to his side to check on him, while someone called the school nurse.

“I’m sorry,” he mother said through tears. “I tried! I tried so hard!! But they said that if I raised you, you would turn out to be an ineffectual homosexual incapable of distinguishing between fantasy and reality! The judge bought it!!”

Please feel free to read the full entry on Reedsy; the link is below.

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https://blog.reedsy.com/short-story/at4nru/