“This is what’s available,” barks the man.

She looks through the bars.

Pressed against them: faces. Beseeching. The heart-breaking whining unbearable. She cannot take all.

She writes a random number on her document and presents it to the office.

“A boy? You pick a boy?”

“Yes,” is her choked reply.

Internationally published, S.B. Borgersen writes, knits socks, and walks her smashing dogs on the south shore of Nova Scotia. Her favoured genres are short and micro fiction and poetry. She has thirteen draft novellas gathering dust. A member of The Nova Scotia Writers’ Federation, Writers Abroad, and a founding member of The Liverpool Literary Society, Sue judged the Atlantic Writing Competition (Poetry) 2016 and Hysteria (Poetry) 2017. See more at sueborgersen.com.