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On Being One for Akashic Book's Terrible Twosdays. http://www.akashicbooks.com/on-being-one-by-susan-i-weinstein/

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“On Being One” by Susan I. Weinstein Are you a parent going through the Terrible Twos? Did you live through them and survive? Terrible Twosdays is a place to commiserate over the unending shenanigans of your Darling Children (as the online parenting communities say). Nonfiction stories will be considered, so long as names have been changed to protect the guilty. Inspired by our best-selling gift book for parents,  Go the Fuck to Sleep , Terrible Twosdays joins the roster of our other online short fiction series. Unlike  Mondays Are Murder  and  Thursdaze , we’re looking for stories with a light and mischievous feel, all about the day-to-day challenges of parenting. As with our other flash fiction series, stories must not exceed 750 words. This week,  Susan I. Weinstein describes life with a baby boy. One Being One by  Susan I. Weinstein One He looks at me with woebegone betrayal in his large baby eyes. My tyrannical one-year-old son is teething, recovering from roseola.  H