Henry's Hope

The hope prize was launched in 2024 as an annual prize that looked for story submissions about hope, courage and resilience.

I thought I'd share our family story about Henry's first few years and raising a child with special needs. 

It's a story I didn't want to just exist in my google docs.  Raising a child with special needs can be fairly lonely and almost always stressful. I thought maybe by sharing our story of hope, courage and resilience it might just help someone else.

Now be warned, like a big glass of Milo, I did heap a few extra spoonfuls of symbolism into the story.

I'm still trying different things with my writing and I felt that a story of hope, courage and resilience could cope with the amped up symbolism.

As I said in my blog post, I'm wanting to put together a collection of short stories but this one was a bit of an outlier  with all my other stories containing horror themes.

Hope you enjoy Henry's Hope (click read more below to reveal the story)

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