Prompt: Coming Undone | Word count:1200 words exactly | Genre:
Leaning her head on Danny’s shoulder, Junie sighed. The long hard day of bringing Joey home from the hospital was over. Again.
When he was four Joey had awoken up in the night screaming. His right leg had crossed over the left. Frightened, he couldn’t straighten it. “Mama, Mama, it hurts! My leg. What’s wrong with it? My leg, it wont work, Mama!”
Doctors looked, poked, prodded. They used the latest diagnostic tools. Joey cried and shivered in Mama’s arms. Junie showed Joey a brave face but privately she had curled sobbing into Danny’s arms.