Please check out our amazing new story on heartbreak and loss, miscarriage, c-section, birth, post-partum depression, “Sterile Fields” by Karen Carr. Feel free to comment here!
….They had wheeled her in here hours ago-hours ago, when she had told them it was time. They had wheeled her into this green tiled room, pushed her into the cold metal stirrups, pushed her legs apart, pushed their fingers up into her, and decided that it was not time to stop that pushing. Now, in the same room, they stood above her, all wearing green tile-matching masks, muttering in voices that seemed to her like voices on a long distance phone line. They stood around her in a semicircle, her body underneath their eyes, laid out flat-sacrificial. She saw the man who she recognized by his glasses and the red, broken-blood-vesselled nose. He smiled through his mask and put his hand on her shoulder…..MORE HERE…
Check out our latest poem by Jennifer Schialliol on what a 7 year old boy thinks about miscarriage. Please comment here.
Check out our latest fiction, “Kissing Scars,” and comment here…
Please check out “Gravid” by poet Hanna Miller.
Please check out our latest selection of poems on birth by Jenn Blair.
Check out our latest offering, an excerpt from a novel, called “Fractured,” by Susan Oloier.
“As I mill around the maternity section of Target, pushing the camel-colored pregnancy pants with the stretch bellies across the rack, I am oblivious to Life’s samurai surprises. At three months—twelve weeks in pregnancy lingo—my size 28 Levi’s are just beginning to tighten. But as an overzealous, first-time mom-to-be, I need to explore my clothing options. …” Read more…
“The Pig Door” tells the story of a Morman man who has just found the son he fathered through artificial insemination. Please comment here.
Check out our latest offering, “First Trimester: Down Syndrome Test” by Christine Redman Waldeyer, and comment here.
In “Fresh Eggs,” a personal essay, Gretchen Wright shares her experiences with artificial insemination and adoption. Please comment here.
Wendy Marcus’s short story, “Lady-in-Waiting,” examines one woman’s ability to love her stepchild, even as she struggles with her own infertility.
