This little boy has forgotten how he was made. He is old enough to know he can’t ask his teddy bear, but he is still young enough to love that bear and believe that it can feel the same pain and joy that the boy does....
The Made Boy
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Chris Haven
Chris Haven is the author of a book of short stories, Nesting Habits of Flightless Birds (Tailwinds Press), and a collection of poems, Bone Seeker (NYQ Books). His short fiction and flash fiction have appeared in Threepenny Review, New Orleans Review, Arts & Letters, Massachusetts Review, Electric Literature, Cincinnati Review MiCRo, and Kenyon Review Online. His poems can be found in The Southern Review, Cincinnati Review, Pleiades, Mid-American Review, and Beloit Poetry Journal, and prose poems from his Terrible Emmanuel series appear in Denver Quarterly, Sycamore Review, North America Review, and Seneca Review, where they won the Deborah Tall Award for Lyric Essay. He lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan and teaches courses in writing and style at Grand Valley State University.