This is a repost from a Tumblr series that I called “My perfect dad.” I’m preserving these older stories and continuing to write new ones available on this site first.
I was in a hurry, and it showed. The pretzels and potato chips were strewn haphazardly about the plate. I’d spilled some dip trying to do too many things at once. The whole thing was a mess, and I was running out of time.
“Hey, dad! Where’s the food?”
I tried to mop my sweaty brow with the bottom of my t-shirt, but it was too tight and too short to reach.
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