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Caution, Breakable 
by Rie Sheridan Rose 

Life isn’t always kind. Moments exist which tear your heart out in a figurative sense. For me, one of those moments was waking up in a hospital bed to hear my father on the phone telling someone, “Yeah, they took it all out. Said it wasn’t viable, anyway.”

The words might not be exact, but the gist is the same. I would never bear a child.

One of my girlhood dreams crashed and broke that day.

I went on with my life, as one usually does, since the alternative is so much bleaker.

I pretended to be content as aunt and babysitter but, inside; I died a little.

Then, one day, they arrived from the stars. They enslaved a people they felt inferior…Planet Earth. All at once, the squabbles over borders and races no longer were important—we all united against a bigger threat.

Not that it mattered. They were right. They were superior. Our most powerful weapons and skilled leadership were children’s playthings to be smashed into submission.

Within weeks, we had given up. We let them take everything.

Life changed its shape, but not its attitude. It continued brutal, unfair, and unkind.

I found myself relegated to nurserymaid for a hive of the creatures. Not even playing with younglings, which might have been amusing. Simply watching their eggs and turning them under the heat lamp now and again. This was my lot now…watching alien eggs. Waiting for them to hatch so I could notify the hive. A constant cycle of birth and life.

Until I could no longer stand it and took my father’s hammer to work one morning.

It proved so very satisfying.

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Fiction © Copyright Rie Sheridan Rose
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com

More from Author Rie Sheridan Rose:

Overheard in Hell:
Dark Poetry

Poems exploring hell and damnation. Tales of sorrow, vengeance, betrayal, and redemption. Ghosts, ghouls, and demons stalk these pages. Don’t read in a lonely house…in a darkened room by a single candle…

…unless you like the touch of an icy finger up your spine.

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