Scrambled Babies by Hayes Babe

Author:Hayes, Babe [Hayes, Babe]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-09-27T21:00:00+00:00

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Ring!

It was the Thursday night before her Saturday night dinner date with Steve. “Hello?”

“Paeton, Steve. Turn to channel seven. I think your troubles are getting worse. There’s some damn TV show about National Single Mom of the Year. We’ll talk later. Saturday definitely, sooner if you want. Call your agent too. I can’t believe people are making such a big deal out of a simple mistake.”

“Okay. Thanks.” She paused. “Yes, I’d love to talk to you later.” She hung up pensively. It was true. She did want to talk to Steve—before Saturday night. And after Saturday night. And—

Paeton had been watching a movie based on a romance novel, trying to analyze how four hundred pages get reduced to two hours. She flipped to channel seven. “This Could Hurt” was one of the hundreds of sensationalistic TV news magazines now blighting the airwaves. She sat down to watch.

“Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to ‘This Could Hurt,’ the TV news magazine that focuses on the grave consequences of grossly negligent human behavior. I’m Lois Conover, Ph. D. in abnormal psychology and columnist for the Los Angeles Herald. Tonight we are going to explore the behavior and psychology of three individuals: a woman who can’t recognize her own child of three months, a man who commits robberies in his sleep, and a boy and his dog who bully their neighborhood. First, these messages from TidyDipy, the diaper that clings like your baby’s own skin.”

Paeton was incredulous. That was the diaper company that had begged her to enter the National Single Mom of the Year competition. Now they were singling her out as an unloving mother? She was never called, never interviewed. Nothing!

“Now to our first story for this evening. Here is the amazing, sad but true story of a famous woman who mistakes another child for her own flesh and blood. On the fourth of August of this year, Paeton McPhilomy, author of the best-seller The Sky Streaks of Black, boarded a jetliner and soared across the skies with a tiny baby who wasn’t hers. She had no idea it wasn’t her baby until this infant child needed to be changed. What makes this hurt, and hurt badly, is that this woman is a candidate for National Single Mom of the Year. An award revered throughout the nation—that is, until now. And now America is asking: Should Ms. McPhilomy have the right to compete with the truly loving moms of this great nation?”

Paeton sat frozen in horror! She began to regret the success that had struck her and left her as a sitting duck for the media.

“I have with me tonight, live from a power-pole site in Wichita, Kansas, Esther Kavaleski, this year’s reigning National Single Mom of the Year. Besides being a single mom, Esther is a pole-climber for Kansas Power and Light. Hi, Esther. Isn’t it kind of late for you to be climbing up electric poles?”

“Hi, Lois. No, like, it’s my job. We single moms have to work when we’re needed, Lois.

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