Nurturing Narrator Gifts

Hospital patient gets TLC.

A midwife holding a baby

Bird feeding chick that is nesting in a knight's helmet

'Don't worry. It's never too hot or never too cold.'

'You call it a bra. I call it excess packaging.'

The Music Seed

'So this is goodbye then!'

Mother's Love

Jonathan was so sleep deprived after the arrival of his baby that he accidentally burped a workmate.

Jerry Lordan

"Little Lucas doesn't go anywhere without his weighted blanket."

Gullib-Os

"We're looking forward to this little bundle of joy bringing out the worst in each of us."

Romulus and Remus

Moms gone wild

"Not to alarm you, but the other newborns are already ahead."

'I have her registered in a pre-med nursery program.'

"How are you getting on with your new baby?"

"Gotta love happy hour!"

'That's a bit better. Persistence pays off - although, not as well as it did when I was your age.'

In an alternate universe, characters from the rough draft and finished manuscript of the same novel meet themselves at a cocktail party.

'I've been fixed even though there wasn't anything wrong with me.'

Breastfeeding

"We want one that's genetically gifted but not genetically spoiled."

"Support the head!"

2020 Panic Room

"Narrative play is dead."

'Wait a minute! I want it stirred, not shaken!'

"I'm not surprised that lady's so fat. . . The baby's been blowing her up for hours."

'Anorexia definitely isn't in this girl's vocabulary.'

'Well, Mary, you've already screwed up you first two kids. This could be you last chance...'

"If you kids want to grow up to be writers, it's time we give you something to write about."

'Great draft. It just needs a little exfoliation.'