As Though She Were Sleeping
“Milia was in bed and in pain. The pain pincered her lower body and shot upward. She could not breathe. A fisted hand plunged into her lower parts and tugged. Her body seemed paralyzed and her head was heavy. She opened her eyes but saw nothing. The pain ebbed, as though diffusing and spreading along her belly before it melted away to leave behind an evanescent memory.
The nine months had passed. The time was come.
The pain returns. Her belly convulses and with that appears her grandmother Umm Y...usuf. Why has this grandmother dropped from her memory? And why, today, does she return?
White hair in a tight bun clustered against the nape of the old woman’s neck. She reclines in bed, mute and paralyzed. An ancient cat hovers nearby but dares not jump up to snuggle next to her in bed. It is Umm Yusuf – by her premotherhood name, Hasiba Haddad – who died when Milia was three years old and was erased from the girl’s memory, or perhaps she never actually entered Milia’s memory in the first place.MoreLess
The nine months had passed. The time was come.
The pain returns. Her belly convulses and with that appears her grandmother Umm Y...usuf. Why has this grandmother dropped from her memory? And why, today, does she return?
White hair in a tight bun clustered against the nape of the old woman’s neck. She reclines in bed, mute and paralyzed. An ancient cat hovers nearby but dares not jump up to snuggle next to her in bed. It is Umm Yusuf – by her premotherhood name, Hasiba Haddad – who died when Milia was three years old and was erased from the girl’s memory, or perhaps she never actually entered Milia’s memory in the first place.MoreLess
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