The Facebook status read: “We have a ruptured membrane!”

I panicked.

The other women laughed at me. Google helped let me in on the joke.

Why he couldn’t just write “Her water broke” seemed a better question than why, at twenty-seven and a female, I know so little about pregnancy.

Angela Morris earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Oklahoma. Her works have previously been published in This Land Press, Chaffin Journal, Atticus Review and other literary journals.