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English
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Part 127 of One Hundred Word Worlds , Part 17 of Kids Will Say the Darndest Things
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Prompt 12 - Pop
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Published:
2025-11-28
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100
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Five Minutes Peace

Summary:

Sometimes a day happens where absolutely everything happens all at once and the only thing to do is take a few minutes alone, on the kids climbing frame in the garden.

Notes:

This is for all the parents out there, or folks who dealt with families yesterday, or really anyone in any circumstance who finds that an escape is the only way to claw back a little sanity in order to rejoin the fray.

Work Text:

*POP*

I sit and silently seethe. It’s been an astronomically and intensely trying day from the very beginning. The toddler is in a mood, about everything, the older beastie isn’t helping. 

*POP*

I’m trying to keep it together but he’s not even here, so I’m wrangling them both, along with the housework and cooking on my own. I hit a limit. 

*POP*

I made sure the kids were safe, the oven was off with the incinerated remains of dinner cooling top. 

*POP*

I’m sitting on the climbing frame. I have bubble-wrap.

*POP*

“Nick, love? Wine or hugs first?”

Charlie’s home!