It Will Look Like a Sunset – Guernica

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“You made me hit you in the face,” he said mournfully. “Now everyone is going to know.”

Image by Alexander Tinei , Morning Bird , 2013. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Dukan I was twenty-six, having spent most of my twenties delaying adulthood, and he was twenty-four and enjoyed a reputation as a partier. The pregnancy was a surprise, and we married four months later. As my belly stretched outward with the tightness of the baby, my limbs grew heavy. I napped constantly on a long hand-me-down couch, the summer heat giving me nightmares. I dreamt of a woman floating in the corner staring at me, and I woke with my heart racing. One afternoon, a hummingbird flew through the open door

It Will Look Like a Sunset – Guernica

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