
Other Stories by Wang Yuan (audio)
Clarkesworld Magazine
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What a Mother Most Fears?
Every time i finished a story, you were my first reader. You soon tired of routine fairy tales and begged me to read your own works aloud. Do you know what a mother most fears? Her child no longer needing her. This really is the saddest theorem in the world, but there's no avoiding it. If your father still haunts you, that's life. There are always fetters of one kind or another,. like common accidents and diseases. Get married, be needed by another woman, start a family and be a parent yourself.
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