Quickening, or How to Plot an Abortion
Clair Wills: The Abortion Plot, 16 March 2023
“... Every hour I make scissor movements, bicycles, or stick my feet against the wall. To quicken it. When I do, a strange heat spreads like a flower somewhere at the base of my stomach. Purplish blue, rotten. Not painful, just before pain, an unfurling on all sides that hits against my hips and dies at the top of my thighs ... ”