Status Updates From The Collected Schizophrenias

“My head had lodged behind a bone in my mother's pelvis, which hints of an intergenera-tional transmission of trauma; stress causes the flooding of cortisol and other chemicals into the brain, and my newly immigrated, newly married young mother had her own psychiatric issues to contend with. Who knows what happens to the malleable and muddy assortment of fetal cells because of such strain?”