A husband’s obsessive desire for a child leads to an unexpected manifestation of his yearning in a nightmarish short story about fatherhood dreams.
Willy and Marianne’s farmhouse in Maine has acres of meadow and fresh air, and a lonesome bridle path in the forest along which Willy daydreams and ambles. When he’s loaned a decrepit old baby stroller to cart his groceries home, the rickety squeak of the wheels comforts him. So do the sweet coos of a baby Willy knows can’t be real. Can it? In this twisted thicket, wishes come true—with a price.
Joe Hill’s The Pram is part of Creature Feature, a collection of devilishly creepy stories that tingle the spine and twist the mind. They can be read or listened to in one petrifying sitting.
First publication: Amazon Kindle
Date: Sept, 26 2023
Author(s): Joe Hill
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Willy rode up front, next to the real estate agent. Marianne sat in the back, her face turned to the window. The agent glanced at her now and then in the rearview mirror, probably wondering about Marianne’s unfocused eyes and air of dreamy disinterest, but Sally Timperley directed the sunny, inconsequential flow of her chatter at Willy.
He did his best to hold up his end, resenting Marianne for making him do all the work, resenting himself for resenting her. What part of New York are you from? We’ve got a a place in Brooklyn. What do you do there? I work for a digital marketing outfit. Would you have to give that up if you moved to Maine? No I’ve been working from home since COVID started, and management really couldn’t care less whether home is New York, Maine, or the Outher Hebrides. What’s your Brooklyn residence like? Well, it’s 840 square feet, it cost more than this farmhouse you’re going to show us, and my wife miscarried in the bathroom. I mopped up the blood myself, used a whole tub of Lysol WIpes, and now it feels like we live in a morgue. Thanks for asking.
But Marianne surprised him by interrupting.
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