Three Minus One

Stories of Parents' Love and Loss

Sean Hanish, Brooke Warner

• Publisher: She Writes Press
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN:
  9781938314810
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies

Three Minus One: Parents’ Stories of Love and Loss is a collection of intimate, soul-baring stories and artwork by parents who have lost a child to stillbirth, miscarriage, or neonatal death, inspired by the film Return to Zero. The loss of a child is unlike any other, and the impact that it has on the mother, the father, their family, and their friends is devastating—a shockwave of pain and guilt that spreads through their entire community. But the majority of those affected, especially mothers, often suffer their pain in silence, convinced that their grief and trauma is theirs to bear alone. This anthology of raw memoirs, heartbreaking stories, truthful poems, beautiful painting, and stunning photography from the parents who have suffered child loss offers insight into this unique, devastating and life-changing experience—breaking the silence and offering a ray of hope to the many parents out there in search of answers, understanding, and healing.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• Introduction
• “You’re Going to Be a Daddy”
• The Tiny Voice That Saved Me
• Seamus
• Executioner
• The Turn
• The Emptying Out
• The Almost-Fives
• Dragonflies
• Skin
• The Second of July
• Bearing Max
• Masters of Disguise
• Untitled
• Onion Bread
• Lorenzo’s Island
• Death of a Possum
• Time-Warping for the Bereaved
• On Letting Go
• Valentine
• Miscarried
• Lost Friends and the Big Lie
• Bella’s Story
• Address Book
• Baby Maybe
• Spare Me
• 4 a.m.
• The Hatbox
• “Where is the Other Baby?”
• What to Do When They Bring You Your Dead Baby in the Hospital
• Staring Death in the Face
• Mute
• Split Wide Open
• Ghost Child
• Red Ant
• Pinwheel
• Eternity
• Their Names
• The Broken People
• Diary of a Wimpy Mom
• Heavy as Grief
• Still
• Called to Motherhood
• Trinity
• Waiting
• Carrying Ashes
• Refuse to Lose
• The Raven
• Ash
• Silent Miscarriage
• After Stillbirth
• Love of My Life
• The Coin
• Dashed
• A Touch of Life
• Written on the Palm of My Hand
• Violets in the Mountains
• Nesting
• Miscarriage
• To Balance Bitter
• The Storm
• “Not Again”
• Taken
• The Final Thread
• Rae of Hope
• The Fire This Time
• Early Second Trimester
• When Grace is Gone
• Dear Little Mizuko Bean
• The End
• Spring Baby
• Firstborn
• Space Within My Heart
• Brayden William Porter
• My Daughter
• Our Bloody Secrets
• One Could Not Stay
• Losing Luna
• Miscarriage
• Luca D’oro: Our Golden Boy
• If
• Our Family Love Story
• Rockabye
• Anneka’s Story
• Acknowledgments
• About the Contributors
• About the Editors