Creative Nonfiction

Calendar

By Sarah Baughman

February 12, 2012

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For my anthology I will be using this creative nonfiction to show how love is something that brings worries and loneliness when one is not next to the person one loves and cares about. Like in the “Calender” the mother made a calendar for the 2yr old kid to put stickers on for the days his father wasn’t there with them because he went on a fall hunting trip but the mother was worried that he wasn’t back the day he was supposed to be back. This is a quote that mentions how the mother was and why she made the calendar “My own potential for loss--the raw missing, the empty gape forever--paled as I considered my child, whose innocence made the threat of loss even crueler”. She thought that probably the plane had crashed and he will never be back with the family again. The child would lament for his father and his consolation was placing the stickers on the calendar and at last he had resignation that his father was dead, since the days went by and his father would not be home yet. Finally, then another week came and on the end of a week the husband came in the house safe and whole that the kid started crying of how he didn’t believe his father was alive I guess he thought about it as a dream came true but it was actual life his father was alive.