Ninja4Akemi

What she remembers best about the birth is the feeling of coming undone. In her memory, she's lying there in the bathtub, gripping the edges with both hands and unspooling from the waist up. "It's coming, it's coming!" the midwife says, and all Elly can think is, I'm falling apart. And then, when it has come and it lies on her chest, suctioned by the gums to her nipple, her whole life seems to have unwound from its bobbin and knotted its end around this tiny, writhing thing which will assume the name "Mikaila" and become her daughter. There is a blurry smudge of time after the birth when she is so busy she ceases to exist. When existence re