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    When a Child Cries
    When a Child Cries
    When a Child Cries
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    When a Child Cries

    By Michelle Sagara

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    A short story of 6k words. Originally published in Phantoms of the Night, edited by Richard Gilliam & Martin H. Greenberg.

    A lone man enters a church to confess: he has murdered his wife.

    Why?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRosdan Press
    Release dateJun 23, 2020
    ISBN9781927094419
    When a Child Cries
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    Michelle Sagara

    New York Times bestselling author Michelle Sagara writes as both Michelle Sagara and Michelle West; she is also published as Michelle Sagara West. She lives in Toronto with her long-suffering husband and her two children, and to her regret has no dogs. She can be found @msagara on Twitter or http://msagarawest.wordpress.com

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      When a Child Cries - Michelle Sagara

      When a Child Cries

      When a Child Cries

      Michelle Sagara

      Rosdan Press

      Copyright © 1996 by Michelle Sagara

      First appearance in Phantoms of the Night, edited by Richard Gilliam & Martin H. Greenberg

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

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      Contents

      Introduction

      When a Child Cries

      Epilogue

      Acknowledgments

      About the Author

      Also by Michelle West

      Also by Michelle Sagara

      Other Short Stories

      Introduction

      I remember very little of the writing of this story, but remember one specific thing clearly. My mother, who did not read the story, asked me what I was writing.

      So I told her, because in general in our household, if a question can be asked and it doesn’t cross personal boundaries, it gets answered.

      She was horrified. Because I was writing about the ghost of a dead child - and I had a child.

      Trying to explain that these two things were not entirely separate did not really make her feel any better. Apparently there are some things that one does not write about. Prior to having children, I was ignorant, and my choices could, perhaps, be ignored. But after? No.

      (As an aside, one hears stories all the time about mothers who love and adore anything their children do—and I would like to meet one, because that was not really my experience >.<. On the other hand, when my mother did love something I had done, it was purely because she loved the writing, not because she loved me.)

      When a Child Cries

      Imust tell somebody this.

      I have come here, father, although I am not a Catholic. I know you have no reason to listen to what I have to say, but

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