Without the Imagination

 By Henry Clarke, Grade 10, Phillips Exeter Academy, NH
Would he ever stop searching for his mother?
Genre  Short Story   Topic  Family, Coming of Age, Animals, Identity, Hope

The narrator, raised in an orphanage, imagines seeing his mother for the first time. He thinks about the relationship between parent and child as he waits for his Labrador to give birth to puppies.

ID 29979   Published in Merlyn's Pen Volume 2, Issue 1 Senior High Edition  
Reading Level 10th-12th grade   Selected as an Editor's Choice

Also appears in these Merlyn's Pen publications:

Outsiders and Others, Short Takes, Sophomores

Has been reprinted and/or translated in these countries:

Austria, Bulgaria, China, Denmark, Germany, Holland, Hong Kong, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan

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