The knots stop me as I run the bristles through her thick hair.

“Ouch, daddy.”

“Sorry, honey.”

I gently work through the knots with the brush while she hums.

We hear the bus coming. She stops humming and starts biting her nails.

I wish I could untangle all her knots.

Seth Pilevsky lives in New York and is happily married with five amazing kids. His work has appeared in What Doesn’t Kill You, a YA anthology published by Indomita Press, Maelstrom, The Inner Circle Writers’ Group Literary Anthology 2019, Long Island Literary Journal, Literally Stories, Memoir Magazine and Stinkwaves Magazine. Seth is currently working on his first YA novel. Sign up for updates at his website, spilevsky.com.