DemocraSay

ESSAY: As Told by the Men

Amount
$1,250
Start voting
1/2/2008
Deadline
2/1/2008
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Submitted by DemocraSayDesk on Wed, 01/02/2008 - 6:39pm.

Naturally stories of childbirth and pregnancy are written or told by women. However, we seem to forget that such events involve us men. Most, even share these experiences with women as a spouse, mate, brother, cousin, friend, or neighbor.

In a short story format write your experience of the usual women stories such as childbirth, pregnancy, child rearing, home management, and the like. The aim of these stories is to open the eyes of the public that we, men, are not just muscles and toughness or roughness-- we are fathers, husbands, and/or brothers too.

This story is open for anyone, male or female, to write, but it must be written from the male perspective: that is, the narration/narrator must have a convincing "male" voice and tale.

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