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PAVARTI K TYLER: Creation

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Soft blue light illuminated the tank as Milton watched the cells divide.

2… 4… 8… 16…

He felt like Frankenstein, high in his tower, witnessing the inception of his creation. Through the portal next to his workstation the sun crested the Earth’s horizon far below.

It was a quiet birth.

Award-winning author of multi-cultural and transgressive literature, Pavarti K. Tyler can be found with Doc Martens strapped on over fishnets, but a girlish giggle as easily and likely as a throaty guffaw.

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He toddles up to me, hands cupped. “I made this, Daddy!”

I drop my briefcase. “What is it?”

His hands open and there goes the frog. We scramble after it, laughing.

I didn’t realize then that his statement had been literal. I still don’t know what he uses as materials.

This story was based on the prompt “for you” at TypeTrigger.