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Weekly Contest #358
I promised my partner that after we had our baby, I would get on treatment. A year after she was born, I got the medicine. Four pre-loaded syringes arrived with a cold pack. A month’s supply. One injection per week and a pill every morning. I stuffed the box into the refrigerator far away from the organic sweet potatoes I prepared for my daughter. I cried alone in the kitchen while my two-year-old daughter was sleeping. I’d read her a story and fed her. Would I be able to do that tomorrow, and years to come?The hepatitis C virus clung to my ...
Weekly Contest #354
I remember when my five-year-old daughter crossed a balance beam in gymnastics on the day Haiti suffered a catastrophic earthquake. It felt peculiar to be proud of my daughter in a world that was unbalanced in so many ways. The poorest country suffered the greatest loss. I was unbalanced too. Insecure about being a new mother at the age of forty-one with a history of heroin addiction. I was clean for over twenty-five years but having a child put that past of mine under a microscope.A mother from our school sat next to me. We never spoke beyo...
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