[This article was originally written for a book, Like Mother, Like Son, an anthology of first person accounts of men’s relationships with their mothers. The book, edited by Robert Blauner, was under contract to be published by the University of California Press in 1995. When Blauner submitted his completed manuscript, however, his editor […]

It must have been about noon yesterday when they sucked the would-be baby out of Sara. Pressed the stubby end of the clear, fat plastic tube up against her cervix, turned on the machine, and flushed away whoever it was that had started to grow there.