MFA Alum Natalie Rowland publishes short story in Epiphany

Congratulations to MFA alum Natalie Bisaro Rowland on publication of a short story, "Female Nocturne," in Epiphany literary magazine.

An excerpt from "Female Nocturne":

I woke in the earliest morning hours. 1:18 a.m. 4:13 a.m. Pregnant with my first daughter. Hormones raced and shifted and dropped and rose, and I saw the dark as an inscrutable, enveloping bat.

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Twelve weeks to begin: Predatory queasiness. A fainting tendency. At worst I lay on cold bathroom tile after vomiting, lightheaded enough to float without leaving the floor. My skin flushed, birthed sweat.

At best I knew the miracle of what was happening inside me. [ . . . ]

 

 

 

 

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