“Daddy loves you,” I say, placing my daughter in her crib with a fresh diaper.
I notice the crease in each elbow as she shakes her toy at me and laughs.
I linger.
If I don’t survive the surgery tomorrow, I pray that I can take this memory with me.
Seth Pilevsky lives in New York with his wife and five kids, trying to tuck away those precious moments for a rainy day. His work has been published in the Long Island Literary Journal, Literally Stories, Memoir Magazine, Stinkwave’s Magazine and in the YA anthology What Doesn’t Kill You. Sign up for blog updates at spilevsky.com.
Extremely effective writing. Well done.
Touchingly beautiful.
Amazing imagery, made me tear up!
Moving. Nice work Seth.
A tender, thoughtful piece.
I agree. It’s simply beautiful
Wow, powerful, Seth! Congratulation on Story of the Week! :-)
Congrats. Nice work.
Thank you! As a father I liked it very much.
Great story! It was much better than Cats!