The Push

by Ashley Audrain

We vibrate to the rhythms of our mother’s blood before she herself is born. . . .

Mothers aren’t supposed to have children who suffer. We aren’t supposed to have children who die. And we are not supposed to make bad people.

Motherhood is like that—there is only the now. The despair of now, the relief of now.

A mother’s heart breaks a million ways in her lifetime.