The tip of the pregnancy test looks like coconut pulp.

Instinctively, Collette wants to run her fingers through it, like the silicone bristles of a basting brush.

She imagines amniotic fluid flooded with Pisco Sours, raw egg whites whisked into an embryo.

A two-week bender reduced to two pink lines.

Josie Cellone is a recovering journalist and aspiring fiction writer who lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and daydreams about waterfront property.