Untitled (Matchbook Story Contest Entry)

(Listen to this piece on Episode 5 of the podcast)

She laughed. Hard. Funniest thing she’d heard all year and it was December. She’d been pregnanting and birthing and quieting her voice for the newborn who’d blessed her at 45. She felt the squirt. Reached down to the underside of her panties. “Guess I need diapers now, too.”