Bryan Shawn Wang lives with his family near Reading, Pennsylvania. His fiction has recently appeared in the Summerset Review, Solstice, Valparaiso Fiction Review, and other journals and has been shortlisted for the storySouth Million Writers Award. His current work in progress, a story collection titled Notes from the Caregiver, includes “We Raised Them.”
Fall 2013
We Raised Them
They came to us freshly buffed, swaddled in striped hospital blankets, tucked inside clear plastic baskets atop metal carts. They appeared impossibly small. We lifted them out and cradled them and marveled at their miniature perfection, their darling fingers and toes and earlobes, their cherubic radiance.