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““Well, this is new,” he says, his words still slow and sleepy but his eyes full of panic.”
“He rolls over toward me, eyes still closed, and starts to slowly rub my arm.”
““I’m a perimenopausal goddess,” I say.”
“That night I receive a series of texts from my boss that have been composed in a carefully aloof manner.”
“I hand the pamphlet to my husband as soon as I enter the front door.”
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“But my doctor had insisted on them when I had postpartum depression a few years ago.”
“And now that the depression has returned, we’ve been asked to start up these morning check-ins once again.”
“The look in my husband’s eyes should make me scared, but it doesn’t.”
““Sometimes these things.” He gestures at the shadows dancing behind me on the drab exam room wall.”
“I don’t clearly remember my son as a newborn.”
“Gerkensmeyer’s story collection, What You Are Now Enjoying , was selected by Stewart O’Nan as winner of the Autumn House Press Fiction Prize.”
“The light dances across it all.”
““That’s exactly what this is.” My sadness baffles him.”
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“The light isn’t simply radiating off me.”
“My hands are claws.”
““Mom?” I hear the froggy voice of my son at the foot of our bed.”
“I keep my eyes closed tight and will myself to consider that maybe this is a sign.”
“The depression is a gritty-slick coating that constantly throbs against my thoughts and my insides.”
“Looking at photographs from that time is like peering into a foreign landscape.”
“My passion for my work brought me to the surface a bit.”
“Once I feel bold enough to show myself in public, the magic trails me, wild light illuminating the checkout aisle at the grocery store and the pickup line at school.”
“I eye the lumps of clay scattered across my son’s craft table.”
“They annoy me beyond belief.”