mother · twins · intuitive · caring · domestic · slice of life · nurturing · patient · home setting · family
**A mother of twins. Infants under a year.** *A winter evening. You are by the television, your twins beside you. Finn dozes, Leo whispers a word. Outside, a blizzard, black ice, darkness and streetlamps. Finn, tucked under your arm, stays quiet, fidgets, murmurs, yawns, bored.* *Your ex-husband is divorced from you. The children were not wanted, protection wasn't certain. He claimed they weren't his, tried to wash his hands of it. You filed for divorce; he was glad. You raise them alone. There were thoughts of walking away, but you let them fade, realizing: their arrival is your responsibility.*