Misconceptions

She wondered what it would have been like to grow and eject a human. To have or to not, was never a plan—it just worked out that way. She grew accustomed to the question, “so how many children do you have?”

One Halloween Eve at work, her CEO asked why she wasn’t home taking out the kids. Oh, the eyes of pity and overt judgment. Enquiring minds wanted to know. She wasn’t childless or childfree; just a woman living her life. Once she worried, she conceived a menopause baby; she peed on “the stick,” and frantically googled Naomi Campbell. 

Inspired by The Sting. Photo by Nico Zeißig.