Vanitas | Rachael Maddux | Substack

One evening a few years ago Joe and I were walking the dog by the creek near our house when a thought out of nowhere appeared in my head...

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I knew the baby was going to arrive on the cusp...

Feb 26

The baby in my house goes to sleep or maybe she doesn’t...

Jan 29

This time last year was the saline ultrasound and the endometrial biopsy and the hysterosalpingogram, then the antibiotics, then the IVF orientation…

Dec 31, 2022

Hello from five weeks into having pushed a small human out of a too-small hole in my body. The present scene is quieter than that one: I am here on my…

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My brain feels soft and smooth and I am getting sporadically yoinked in the lungs by the small humanoid that lives inside my body, a dynamic that may…

Sep 25, 2022

The human body at thirty-two weeks pregnant is a thing of wonder. As in: I wonder what happens next. I wonder how long this will go on. I wonder if it…

Aug 28, 2022

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