Any ineptitude of continuing the ceremony motivates our family plan, a spiritual prank, an outright lie, vowel shifts ‘living’ in sin, associates and fellow nationals glimpse each fetus as important as it flies.


A fetus in these circumstances brings on drug dependence, except yours of course.


I note its pale eyestripe of looking and reading. Down curved and black edged, its camouflage of being read. Frankly, it’s not that much into whom? When the father was asked, he hesitated and then spoke, “Not me.”