Creative Nonfiction

Trying to Conceive

It’s not difficult to imagine a line. First, close your eyes. Remember when you were a child and noticed everything about the world: the light stretching just so across the baseball field, the white dog fur on the kitchen floor, the map-like lines on your mother’s stomach.

It can’t be that hard to see a line.

Open your eyes. Do you see it yet?

Hold it up to the window. To the bedroom lamp. You’re searching

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