The
essence of speculative fiction is to ask, "What if?"
and today my what-if question is: what if a pregnant woman
in the throes of labor could physically and telepathically
split the pain with somebody else? I imagine that many mothers
at the peak of their birthing agonies have wished for such
an ability.
This article is no longer available online.
Read it in Matthew Warner's new collection
Horror Isn't a 4-Letter Word:
Essays on Writing & Appreciating the Genre
Matthew Warner is the author of the critically acclaimed
first novel The
Organ Donor and a forthcoming story in Cemetery
Dance magazine. He lives in Falls Church, VA, with illustrator
and web designer Deena
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