You Can Do Hard Things — A Short Story

Brittany Ballard
11 min readJan 18, 2021

(Short Fiction — first performed at Denver Write Club, 2019)

The best part was when she was inside me. Swimming, floating, breathing underwater in my safe, perfect, mother ocean. God I miss the ocean…

But then she came out into this world, and now everything can hurt her.

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Brittany Ballard

Mother, TV, Film & Overflow writer, Unsent Host & workshop guide, EOL Doula, filmmaker, Baby Luck lyricist & DJ, Unsent Host, podcaster