"The Cycle of Life."
She really needed some time off work,
so she took maternity leave.
But the baby was so much work, it
was like she wasn't getting any time off at all.
So she killed the baby.
Hold on.
And that gave her time off for grieving,
a whole other hell of work plus the guilt.
And by the time she started to recover,
she had to go back to work, but pretty soon,
the future seemed so stupid, she started wanting a baby again.
When she looked at her options, one
that apparently a zillion people had chosen
and she hadn't even known about was a move
to the trash heaps of Navarro.
That put things in perspective.
No, she thought, my options are way more limited than that.
Thank the good lord above.
She felt her back against the warm wall of her office.
She felt her cells battling it out below deck.
She ate a stale pastry.
She had one more idea.
It was like an egg in her brain waiting to go off.