I can understand a desire for children could lead to desperate measures but this is so profoundly evil… a horror story! So compelling Eleanor, it would make great movie!
Omg. Eleanor! This story is Jordan Peele meets Hitchcock…it’s horror in the most covert, prosaic, unassuming way, which is always the more terrorizing. Your brain is a carnival.
That's got to be THE most amazing storing about gaslighting ever. Well, at least she has Bobo and can sleep through the night without a squalling baby to feed. Poor Louise.
"Simon bought Maggie a dog when he proposed. “In case it doesn’t work, you’ll always have Bobo.” He meant IVF, or perhaps Maggie, or perhaps Maggie’s womb. In the months since, she’d considered all three. They’d met at The National Gallery." The magnificent economy of the story telling! This is such a wonderful tale, Eleanor.
A lovely story, but sad. I assume in that pile of forms was a surrogate agreement.
Horrifying and devastating. Oh, and typically brilliant!
Thanks, Troy
This was absolutely terrifying! But, as always, expertly crafted.
Thanks, Jodie
This was a wild ride. Having had my turn(s) with IVF, I relate to this story with pure horror and glee. What an idea, and so well crafted.
Thanks, Julie. IVF sent me mad.
It’s a racket
It really is
Hope only partly covered by insurance
Laughing, and also crying
I felt like these were the bunch in "Rosemary's Baby". Really chilling story...
This was very clever. You tell the story so economically with just enough detail to set the hook. Fantastic!
Thanks, Ben 😊
I can understand a desire for children could lead to desperate measures but this is so profoundly evil… a horror story! So compelling Eleanor, it would make great movie!
It would! Maybe someone will pick it up…. It came to me while I was going through my own IVF trials.
🤞🏽🤞🏽
Omg. Eleanor! This story is Jordan Peele meets Hitchcock…it’s horror in the most covert, prosaic, unassuming way, which is always the more terrorizing. Your brain is a carnival.
Thanks, Kim x
That's got to be THE most amazing storing about gaslighting ever. Well, at least she has Bobo and can sleep through the night without a squalling baby to feed. Poor Louise.
"Simon bought Maggie a dog when he proposed. “In case it doesn’t work, you’ll always have Bobo.” He meant IVF, or perhaps Maggie, or perhaps Maggie’s womb. In the months since, she’d considered all three. They’d met at The National Gallery." The magnificent economy of the story telling! This is such a wonderful tale, Eleanor.
A powerful tale.
omg
Oh, heartbreaking and absolute outrage! This was so good.
Thanks, Liz.
Loved this!
That's some modern day Edgar Allen Poe!
Ahh no!!! A horror story if I ever read one. Executed with precision, as usual!