Action Figures - Issue Three: Pasts Imperfect
“Department store mannequins look more lifelike. I expected crying, screaming, a fifty-megaton ballistic freak-out, but no, instead we get to endure the devastating sight of our friend getting sucked into a black hole of despair and not even trying to fight back. It’s like we’ve snuffed out her soul.
“Oh,” she says. She sounds so tiny and distant.
“Muppet, we are so sorry,”
Sara says. “We didn’t want to tell you, but we —”
“No. It’s okay. I’m glad you did. Thank you.” She squeezes the pillow tig...hter. “Did he say...am I even really his?”
“I don’t know,” Sara says.
“I think so? I mean, he said the, uh, genetic material was all, you know, taken from people in for fertility treatment, and I don’t think you can implant just any, uh, embryo into a woman. I think it has to be her own, you know...egg.”
God, this is so awkward, Sara thinks at me.
“I think Sara’s right,” I say. Honestly, I have no idea whatsoever if I’m telling the truth, but Missy has been through enough for one night.MoreLess
“Oh,” she says. She sounds so tiny and distant.
“Muppet, we are so sorry,”
Sara says. “We didn’t want to tell you, but we —”
“No. It’s okay. I’m glad you did. Thank you.” She squeezes the pillow tig...hter. “Did he say...am I even really his?”
“I don’t know,” Sara says.
“I think so? I mean, he said the, uh, genetic material was all, you know, taken from people in for fertility treatment, and I don’t think you can implant just any, uh, embryo into a woman. I think it has to be her own, you know...egg.”
God, this is so awkward, Sara thinks at me.
“I think Sara’s right,” I say. Honestly, I have no idea whatsoever if I’m telling the truth, but Missy has been through enough for one night.MoreLess
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