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Can You Feel This?

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In the chaos of a maternity ward, memories of tragedy and grief come flooding back for an anxious mother-to-be as she struggles to balance her child’s needs with her own healing.

Rushed into an emergency cesarean section, a woman finds herself in the same hospital where her suicidal mother died. She’s buried the trauma of her mother’s last hours--and also the dread that she might be just as vulnerable to breaking. As the new mother relives one crisis in the midst of another, prize-winning author Julie Orringer turns the joyous event of birth into a harrowing, poignant short story.

Julie Orringer’s Can You Feel This? is part of Inheritance, a collection of five stories about secrets, unspoken desires, and dangerous revelations between loved ones. Each piece can be listened to in a single setting. By yourself, behind closed doors, or shared with someone you trust.

©2019 Julie Orringer (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Medical Psychological Short Stories Women's Fiction
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A powerful story that achieves so much in the space of just over one hour. The time spent on this short story is definitely time well spent. Good narration. Highly recommended.

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