Chapter 41: My First Day At School “There must be some kind of mistake,” The Principal peered at me over the top of her desk. “Enrollment is open, but classes don’t begin for another week.” The receptionist, a Miss Raine Forrest, held my hand and looked to the administrator. “That’s what I tried to tell […]

Chapter 40: Cossets, Confessions, and Compromises I stayed in the crib and sobbed and beat up the mattress for what felt like forever. I screamed and wailed. Sometimes I muffled, other times I screamed until my uvula rattled and shook the crib’s bars. To add to the frustration, I didn’t even have a stupid stuffie […]

Chapter 39: A Shower of Sparks I’m not a religious man. I can’t say that I’m an atheist either; nor an agnostic. Frankly, whether there’s a god or gods influencing the world in some intangible or unseen way is something I never gave much thought to. I had other…BIGGER things and people taking up my […]

Chapter 38: The Threat of a New Normal… Excited by the ringing of her doorbell, Janet ran in short stunted steps towards the front; it was the kind of run that children did when they were happy and in a hurry but didn’t want to seem too excited. She was so excited she actually let […]

Chapter 37: Saturday Morning Insight I sat there on the plush carpet of Janet’s living room, wearing nothing but a diaper. A bottle filled with apple juice sloshing in my hands. At least she told me it was apple juice. My paranoid brain nagged at me that there might be something more swirling around beneath […]

Chapter 36: A “Special” Place. It was approximately three o’clock when I wet my pants in public for the first time. I’m not counting being trapped in a crib in the middle of the night. The relative privacy of the carseat didn’t count either. If I had been smarter and less prideful I might have […]

Chapter 35: A Thirty-Two Year Old Baby “Are you sure you don’t want your lion?” Janet asked me just before she unbuckled me out of the carseat. I inhaled. I didn’t even bother to look at the stuffie next to me. “No…ma’am.” A glint of hope flashed in her eyes followed by disappointment. She’d been […]

Chapter 34: Dolled Up Janet cut the engine and took the keys out of the ignition. “We’re heeeeeere,” she sang just before getting out of the car and walking around to the back. Trapped in the car seat, I looked to the stuffed lion that I’d been forced to take with me. In the three […]

    Janet hoisted me out of the crib by my armpits. “Oh yeah!” she groaned. “Was definitely a good choice to put you in the nighttime diaper.” A second later, I was laying on the changing table. I’d been left naked save for the diaper. I didn’t need a mirror to know that my […]

Chapter 32: Some New Facts I woke up not to the sweet screeching of an electric alarm clock, but to terrible gut cramps. Had I been dreaming, I would have felt that I was being stabbed in the stomach. Out of second nature and a few decades of habit, I rolled my head to the […]