“Carriage” by Zea Archer

Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue   I. Serenity: Metastatic cells. High numbers that should be low, and low numbers that should be high. Fertilization. Light and dark watercolor lines. Receptivity and reciprocity in all of microscopia...

“The Second One” by Ava Robinson

Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue   Twenty-five is not seventeen. Essie’s body is different now. As she climbs down the subway stairs, her knees twinge, clicking through the motions. She can feel it, each step-down. She doesn’t run down...

“No Hard Feelings” by Shannon Lange

Issue 18 / Summer 2019 / Abortion Ban Protest Special Issue   I have given birth to three sons—two living and one dead. The one who died was my first, when I was 22; he lived for an hour. He was a breech birth, so I needed a Caesarean—I never held him or saw him....