I have just finished reading an “Amazon Original Stories” by Julie Orringer.“ Can You Feel This” is a quick little read. A woman is rushed into hospital for an emergency caesarean. She is in the same hospital where her mother was taken when she committed suicide just a few years earlier.An interesting and well written few words of fiction.Thank you to the author, publisher for my early copy to read, for my honest review #CanYouFeelThis #NetGalley

Julie Orringer's Can You Feel This? is another in the Amazon Inheritance short stories collection that have turned out to be so spectacularly good. This story features a pregnant woman being rushed to a New York hospital by her partner, Ky, when she starts to bleed. Frantic and worried, Ky makes his way to the nearest hospital. Unfortunately. this is a hospital that holds grief and traumatic memories for the woman, a childhood and a past she has never talked about or revealed to anyone, not even...

Pow, right in the kisser!This is my kind of story. Told in second person, this short tale (32 pages) has a sense of urgency and poetry to it. Every bit of dialogue is so realistic, and it’s tinged with high-octane emotion. The talking itself is simple (and sort of choppy in a way that excites me), but its intensity matches the intensity of the experience we’re witnessing. There’s a certain rhythm that drew me in. All of this to say I loved this story to bits. It’s clever, intense, and well-told....

This is one of five short stories published as the Amazon Original Stories Inheritance Collection. It is the third one I have read and I will now definitely have to go back for the other two!I have not read anything by this author before but now I will. She writes beautifully and this story is so very evocative of the events of child birth. It is not possible to say much more without spoiling the story. Very enjoyable and very well worth reading. Thanks to Netgalley for the opportunity to read a...

Another great short story from the Amazon Inheritence Collection. A women expecting her first child suddenly finds herself having an emergency caesarian four weeks before her baby is due. Bleeding heavily she is taken, not to the hospital where she had booked her delivery, but to the hospital, where as a young child, her mentally disturbed mother died from a traumatic suicide. As she recovers from surgery and tries to care for her baby she reflects on her relationship with her mother and whether...

Yikes! What a first read of 2020! Julie Orringer writes with such intensity in this short read combining the story of a risky C-section birthing with memories of a tumultuous up-bringing and what her mother did...... Whew! My fourth read in the Inheritance Collection. Many thanks to NetGalley and Amazon Original Stories for the complimentary ebook in exchange for review.

Can You Feel This? is the third one I have read in the Amazon Original Short Stories Inheritance Collection. This story is narrated in the second person and at first, it felt a bit odd. I then started to get into the flow and found it an interesting and harrowing way to tell the story. I felt like I became part of the story as I was put in the shoes of the characters here. This one didn't leave me thinking as much but Yes!!! I could feel it and the anxieties the character was feeling. I received...

Another terrific short story from the Amazon Original Short Stories Inheritance Collection. This is the third one that I have read and it’s the third one that is deserving of five stars. Narrated in the second person, an interesting point of view that adds to the power of the story. A mother to be is rushed to the hospital, an emergency situation, but not to the hospital she is supposed to deliver at. Instead, the nearest hospital, one that brings to mind awful childhood memories of losing her m...

What an emotional and engaging short story that gets you thinking and caring , Can You Feel this? is part of the Inheritance, a collection of five stories about secrets, unspoken desires, and dangerous revelations between loved ones. This is my second story in the collection and I have to admit I do struggle with short stories but this one really worked for me, I could really connect with the characters and the story and found myself totally engaged. sometimes I find on finishing a short story

Written in second person, Can You Feel This? is a short story that is part of the Inheritance series. It describes the experience of a woman who suffers from placenta previa and gives birth to her baby at a hospital where twenty-eight years ago, her mother's body was brought, after she'd committed suicide. Having promised herself to never bring a child into this world—fearing that she would become like her suicidal mother after giving birth—the woman tries to find the joy in motherhood while rel...

"If a baby is dead, is it said to have been born?" The main character suffers from placenta previa during her pregnancy. Both her and her husband, Ky, are worried about the survival of the baby. While prepping for her C-section to avoid complications, she remembers her painful childhood and the complications with her own mother. How will she mother her child when she wasn't mothered herself? Is she prepared? She worries about the challenges she will face after the baby is born and is concern

Another short story from the Inheritance collection. I have never read this author so these short stories are a great way to explore new authors. This new mother has a lot on her mind when she goes into labor prematurely. This is their first child and they thought they had everything planned out, the perfect hospital, how they wanted to deliver, etc. I have some personal insight into this because my daughter had also planned to deliver “her way” with a midwife,at a birthing center. However her b...

YES... YES...YES!!!! .... I felt this!Julie Orringer is an awesome author....Very talented!!!!She packs a punch into this short story!!!

5★“Placenta previa is serious. A hundred years ago you’d surely die. The baby too. We don’t want you going into labor. Take no chances. Cancel all flights. No travel after week twenty-seven. No subway travel. No trains at all.”. . . because if you suddenly bleed while you’re in the tunnel under the East River, you’ll both die. This begins like the a straightforward, albeit frightening, story of an average young couple (if there is any such thing) approaching the scheduled C-section of their firs...

TrepidationCan You Feel This? is a tense emotional story of a woman during childbirth and the psychological turmoil with what happened her own mother, haunts her, and ignites the fear that she won’t be the dependable mother her child needs.Emily is a young pregnant woman diagnosed with placenta previa and at thirty-six weeks she starts bleeding. In the emergency dash to the hospital, they decide to go to the nearest one and not the hospital they’d booked - the same hospital Emily’s mother’s body...

A young woman, thirty-six weeks along in her pregnancy, is counting the days until her scheduled C-section date. She knows the signs to watch for, and if need be, what to do in case of bleeding. Go to the closest emergency room. Stressed, anxious, worried by the time they arrive at the closest ER when she experiences bleeding; another layer of distress is added to her mounting concerns. It is the hospital where they took her as a child the day her mother died, a day that still haunts her. A nice...

Rating: GoodGenre:Short StoryA short story about a pregnant woman who is about to deliver her baby in the same hospital that her mentally disturbed mother committed suicide. This is a thought-provoking tale. The frightening thing is that it could happen to any woman or mother. All that anxiety, pain, and grief could be very dangerous especially during a critical time like the pregnancy and delivery periods.This is a well-written short story. I would have liked it more if it was a little bit long...

This is the second of the five Inheritance Collection short stories I have read. It’s about a woman giving birth to her first baby and her fears that she will not be a fit mother. Despite her misgivings, she ultimately attempts to gather her fortitude to make sure her child will have a much better mother than she did. It’s a strong story and well worth the less than an hour it takes to read it. I did demerit it for the second person POV, which I found awkward. Otherwise, it is a moving tale that...

As I've mentioned in my other reviews of Inheritance, I wasn't sure what to expect from this collection. I'd never heard of Amazon Original Stories and still don't know what else they've published. But after reading three of the five stories, I can say this is top-notch short fiction from some of the best authors out there. And Julie Orringer's “Can You Feel This?” is just as good as Alice Hoffman's “Everything My Mother My Taught Me” and Anthony Marra's “The Lion's Den.” At first I didn't like

Another good one in the Inheritance Collection. Emily is pregnant and has placenta previa. Her husband Ky rushes her to the nearest hospital and a Caesarian is performed. Unfortunately, this is the same hospital where Emily’s mother died when she was a little girl. She has hidden this from Ky. She is beset with troubling memories and feelings about her past and is full of fear which she needs to overcome if she and the baby are to survive and they are to be a family. I really enjoyed this one an...