“When I became a father, I began to worry not only that I would die and not be able to care for my daughter but that I would die in an embarrassing way.” New fiction by Ben Lerner.
This must be why, ever since Mr.
The manikin tasted like rubbing alcohol, I remember pushing it over to Inma, as if it were a strangely shaped bong from which I’d just taken a dizzying hit, but Inma pushed it back. Deliver two breaths, the nurse was saying. Each ventilation should last a second. I looked at the couple across the table; they were doing back blows again, so I started doing back blows.
When I was in charge of preparing Astra’s food, I chopped everything so finely I admit I might as well have blended it or hit it with a hammer, which is not what I was supposed to be doing, I was supposed to be giving her an experience of texture, as Inma kept pointing out—“She has to learn what she likes; she has to learn to use her teeth”—and since Inma’s mother was over many times a week she often witnessed Inma remarking that I’d inadvertently liquefied Astra’s food, and of course Inma’s...
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