Spoilers Ahead: 

I had no idea this was a short story until after I started reading it. To be honest, not my thing. I like short stories, but they have to be a certain way for me to like them, and this just wasn’t to my taste. 

We follow Willy as he and his wife try for a baby. Unfortunately, they aren’t successful, and they have a TW miscarriage. His wife, Marianne, is, of course, very distraught, and turns into a shell of herself. His loss, however, is overlooked. He if gifted a pram from one of his friends, and he starts seeing things inside the pram. A baby. He adopts the child as his own, even though the baby isn’t real, and is just a part of his imagination, and he starts seeing horrible apparitions, and it eventually starts to break down his marriage and sends him crazy. 

So yeah, there was nothing inherently wrong about this story, it just felt a little rushed. Some points were difficult to understand, because it either happened so fast or it wasn’t described as well as it could have been. ‘Showing, not telling’, is what we’ve been told by our professors, and I think that would be a good thing to know. It could have easily taken me less than a day to finish this, but I just found I couldn’t get into it, unfortunately. I think it’s an excellent plot idea though, and I think it would have been so much better if it had been made into a novel, as there’s so many things you can do with it. The pacing could have been slower, slowly creating up more suspense… it would have been a very good idea, personally speaking.