Sometimes, life can change in an instant.
For Sharon, it began with a series of pain waves, each one more agonising than the last. It rose, peaked, and fell. She grimaced, yelled, and cried. Inhale, exhale, repeat.
After 14 long hours, the life-changing moment finally arrived.
A healthy baby girl.
Carrie is childless and incapable of entertaining kids for more than thirty minutes at a go. However, her secret pleasure is reading children’s storybooks—to herself, alone.
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.