#(minus the one or two I do myself when I accidentally drown the post with my own rebloging of others posts)

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Is it just me or does it feel like people have just. stopped rebloging things?

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My son Will likes to see how things work.

A few very kind individuals said they would be interested in reading some of my original stuff, so with that in mind, the following is a fictional short horror story originally posted here.  Please be advised that it contains brief descriptions of animal abuse.

A few years ago, I reached the point in my twenties where a lot of my friends and coworkers started reproducing, photos of their happy pregnancy announcements and chubby babies continually flooding every pore of my social media feeds. When my pregnancy test registered a big Positive, legible even through the shaking of my hands, I knew that there would be none of that for me.

It had been a mistake—I had gone out alone, drowning the sorrows of being single in vodka cranberries, when a handsome stranger had offered to buy me my next round. He was handsome, smooth, and incredibly intelligent, and honestly, I was all too eager to go home with him. We spent a wonderful night together, but the next morning I woke up alone in my apartment, the faint lingering odor of his cologne the only sign that it had happened at all.

Until I had missed my period. Until I realized that I had been a little too drunk to insist on a condom. Until I realized that my clean STI tests didn’t mean that nothing permanent had been planted that evening.

For a moment, I toyed with getting an abortion. No religious beliefs held me back, and given that I didn’t know anything of the father more than his face and a first name (which could be fake anyway), I knew that raising the child would fall entirely to me. But then I looked around my empty house, devoid of all life minus a single thriving houseplant, and realized that I wanted to keep it. I had always wanted a child, and since I couldn’t see myself getting married any time soon, this seemed like a reasonable solution.

After throwing my cigarettes into the trash, I threw myself into parenting research, poring over Internet articles and gathering tips from friends, now much more relatable given that I would soon have a child like so many of them did. The pregnancy was surprisingly easy; I had morning sickness, and towards the end my stomach was so big that I felt as though I was going to absolutely burst, but I was lucky enough to not suffer any major complications. My mom stayed with me and helped towards the end, fussing over finishing decorations in the new nursery.

Yes, I had some lingering doubts throughout the process, wondering if I was ready, wondering if I would love the child as much as I hoped, wondering if I could do it without a partner. Yet the second that my baby was born and placed into my arms, his blue eyes looking up at me with curiosity, I knew that I would do anything for my child, and all of my doubts faded away.

The time after was a whirlwind balancing act of maternity leave, followed by a return to work that necessitated hiring a nanny, but for the first time in years, I was immensely happy. I never returned home to an empty house. Instead, Will would be waiting at the door, eagerly bombarding me with whatever he had passed the day doing when I walked in the door. He was exceptionally bright, saying his first word at six months and speaking in full sentences by fifteen.

I was shocked to come home shortly after he hit two-and-a-half years to find him reading aloud to the nanny and an assorted stuffed animal audience. And when I tested his ability by asking him to read from a newspaper, he rattled off an article about global warming without issue, pausing only on the longer scientific terms. I asked Will questions about the article and he answered them flawlessly, telling me that he not only could speak the words, but could understand them as well.

He kept learning more and more every day, and soon he began asking me for books on specific subjects. I was all too happy to acquiesce, ecstatic that my child was so gifted. I bought him books on insects, on animals, on the human body; he had a strong interest in how things worked in nature, and he pored over pictures of anatomy, figuring out how the systems all coordinated to produce a living organism.

Angela, our nanny, pulled me aside one day around his fourth birthday to express concern. She said she had found him killing ants and trying to cut them open with a butter knife, a magnifying glass poised nearby. I chided him lightly on killing an already living creature, but I didn’t want to stifle his curiosity, so I wasn’t too harsh. I regret that now.

You see, as Will grew, so did his knowledge, and so did his desire to conduct his own experiments. He progressed from ants to large spiders, then to mice, then to rabbits. Angela threatened to quit after finding him crouched over the rabbit’s dead body, hands smeared with its blood as he dug around its guts, but I increased her pay substantially and she opted to stay. I told Will that he needed to stop, but my son was just as smooth as his father had been. He told me that he had found the rabbit on the side of the road, freshly dead, so he hadn’t killed it himself as Angela had said. I didn’t want to look at its body too closely, so I just chose to believe him.

When I found one of our neighborhood stray cats in the bathtub, its belly opened up and insides exposed, I knew that I had a serious problem. I went to the Internet only to find it largely unhelpful; all of the stories were either about children who accidentally killed a pet, or those who were doing it simply to be cruel. Will wasn’t being mean to the animals, he just wanted to study how they worked. I could see that when I had to clean up the cat: it didn’t have any wounds, no signs of torture, and Will even admitted to me that he suffocated it because he didn’t want to hurt it.

I made him promise to stop. I told him that I would try to get in touch with some hunters and butchers in the area, even some science professors, so that he could continue his learning under the supervision of an adult on an animal that was already dead. He seemed appeased by this compromise, and for months, no more dead animals showed up. During that time, my stepfather took Will for a day so that he could help gut a deer, and he was absolutely thrilled. Fridge pictures used up decidedly more red crayon after that, but as long as Will was happy, I figured that wasn’t an issue.

After the six month mark of Will not having any more solo experiments, I came home expecting him to meet me at the door and finding no trace of him in the house. I called for Angela, but she didn’t answer either, and I tossed my bag and coat down in a panic. I tried to tell myself that they had just gone on a walk as I ascended the stairs, but my stomach sank with dread as a coppery scent filled my nose.

I found Will leaning over the bathtub, the white towels covering the floor stained with blood, several of my kitchen knives surrounding him. I screamed as I saw a human hand dangling over the side, Angela’s small wrist limp, several fingernails broken off. I locked Will in his room and spent the evening cleaning the bathroom thoroughly. I was thankful for our tall privacy fence as I drug the heavy body outside, burying it in a shallow grave, carefully replacing every flower from my new garden exactly as it had been before, ensuring that no one would be able to see the difference.

Will is still locked in his room (I’ve been bringing him food and supervising bathroom breaks as needed, I’m not neglecting him). It’s been two days. I don’t know what to do at this point. I can’t seem to get him to understand that he did something seriously wrong; he just keeps saying it was for science and to see how she worked. At first, he cried fat tears during his confessions, but the last few times I’ve checked on him he just seems angry, growling at me to let him out.

I would do anything—have done so much—for Will. I’m just worried that he’s willing to do anything to figure out how things work. And the knife I still can’t find makes me worry that he might want to conduct another experiment.

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51 Best Valentine’s Day Quotes

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51 Best Valentine’s Day Quotes

51 Best Valentine’s Day Quotes Harini Natarajan Hyderabd040-395603080 January 13, 2020

Valentine’s Day is around the corner, and anyone who’s deeply in love would have plans to celebrate this special day in the most romantic way. If you are not sure how to express your feelings to your partner, you can write a love letter and make them feel loved.

Here are some of the most beautiful quotes you can send to the love of your life. Fill your Valentine’s card with these adorable quotes and reignite your love for each other once again.

51 Best Valentine’s Day Quotes

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1. Love Is Unconditional

“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally without expecting anything in return.” – Madonna

2. Falling In Love Is Crazy

“The single most extraordinary thing I’ve ever done with my life is fall in love with you.” – Beth Pearson

3. Without Love, Life Is Meaningless!

“I love you the way a drowning man loves air. And it would destroy me to have you just a little.” – Rae Carson

4. When Someone Loves You Back

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”– Dr. Seuss

5. The More You Fall In Love, The Deeper It Gets.

“I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow.” – Leo Christopher

6. When Someone Loves You More Than Your Expectations

“If I know what love is, it’s because of you.” – Hermann Hesse

7. When You Learn How Deep The Feeling Is

“The best love is the kind that awakens the soul; that makes us reach for more, that plants the fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. That’s what I hope to give you forever.”– Nicholas Sparks

8. Love Doesn’t Know Any Flaws

“I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.”– Angelita Lim

9. Love Makes You Speechless

“You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you.”– Jane Austen

10. When You’re Madly In Love

“There is a madness in loving you, a lack of reason that makes it feel so flawless.”–  Leo Christopher

11. When You Want To Be Poetic

“I love you past the moon and miss you beyond the stars.”– J.M. Storm

12. When Love Becomes Everything

“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you are the world.” – Bill Wilson

13. Love Makes You A Better Person

“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” – Roy Croft

14. When Your Heart Takes Over

“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses.” – Lao Tzu

15. Because Love Is Absolute

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride.” – Pablo Neruda

16. Only Love Matters

“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.” – Haruki Murakam

17. Because You Keep Falling In Love Again And Again

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” – Vladimir Nabokov

18. Love Doesn’t Die

“I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.” – W.H. Auden

19. Love Is For Life

“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning

20. Love Is Uncertain

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give–which is everything.”– Katharine Hepburn

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21. Love Is Acceptance

“I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

22. When Your World Is Immersed In Love

“I hope you don’t mind that I put down in words how wonderful life is while you’re in the world.”– Elton John

23. When You’re In Love, You’re Inseparable

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” – A. A. Milne

24. When You’re Blinded In Love

“I’ve never had a moment’s doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.” – Ian McEwan

25. When Love Starts To Blossom

“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” – William Shakespeare

26. Love Makes You Indivisible

“You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.” – Boris Pasternak

27. Lose Your Senses In Love

“I would love to say that you make me weak in the knees but to be quite upfront and completely truthful you make my body forget it has knees at all.”–  Tyler Knott Gregson

28. You Fall In Love, Every Single Day

“Love starts as a feeling, but to continue is a choice. And I find myself choosing you, more and more every day.”– Justin Wetch

29. Love Can Surprise You

“You are the poem I never knew how to write and this life is the story I have always wanted to tell.”– Tyler Knott Gregson

30. Love Is An Incredible Feeling

“Hear my soul speak: The very instant that I saw you, did My heart fly to your service.” – William Shakespeare

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31. There’s No Looking Back In Love

“I fell in love with the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.” – John Greece

32. Love Is Unstoppable And Uncontrollable

“In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” – Jane Austen

33. Love Doesn’t End

“Each time you happen to me all over again.” – Edith Wharton

34. You Can’t Quit Loving Someone

“I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty.” – William Shakespeare

35. When You Get Absorbed In Love

“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought. – Arthur Conan Doyle

36. The Universe Is Trying To Set You Up

“The winds were warm about us, the whole earth seemed the wealthier for our love.” – Harriet Prescott Spofford

37. When You Are In Love, Time Flies

“If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.” – Michelle Hodkin

38. Love Has No Barriers

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.” – Charles Dickens

39. Love Helps You Grow

“I like myself better when I’m with you.” – Mitch Albom

40. Fairy Tales Are True

“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.” – Jalaluddin Rumi

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41. Love Makes You Blossom

“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.” – Pablo Neruda

42. When The One Is Enough

“I would not wish any companion in the world but you.” – William Shakespeare

43. Love Is All You Need

“I look at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world.” – Frank O’Hara

44. Love Can Happen In Seconds

“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” – Giuseppe Verdie

45. Love Is Eternal

“I know from experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.” – E.M. Foster

46. When You Fall Short Of Words To Describe Your Love

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”– Jane Austen

47. Love Surprises You Every Day

“I do love nothing in the world so well as you – is not that strange?” – William Shakespeare

48. Love Nourishes You

“It has made me better loving you… it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter.” – Henry James

49. Falling In Love Is Unstoppable

“There I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

50. Love Is Dreamy

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.” – Nicole Krauss

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51. Love Happens When You Least Expect It

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” – Sarah Dessen

We all get caught up in our hectic schedules, and more than often, it’s our communication and expression of love that take a backseat. This Valentine’s Day, make your partner feel loved and cherished with these romantic quotes.

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Harini has over 12 years of experience in content writing and editing for online media. She specializes in the areas of business, health and wellness, and lifestyle and is proficient in Medical Sciences (Biology, Human Anatomy and Physiology, and Biochemistry). As the Chief Editor, Harini ensures that her team delivers interesting, engaging, and authentic content. Her background in Biomedical Engineering helps her decode and interpret the finer nuances of scientific research for her team. Harini is a certified bibliophile and a closet poet. She also loves dancing and traveling to offbeat destinations.

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