Irene Rebello

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“What you made me.” by Irene Rebello

🏆 Winner of Contest #70

Trigger warning: birth complications     Jude was born already dead. The umbilical cord, the doctors noticed, was wrapped around her throat, long since choking her. She came out not red, but a palid, sickening blue. Her mother could not understand--her daughter had been a fighter in her womb, kicking relentlessly, not letting up for even a second. Days prior, she’d joked with her husband, “Don’t forget to bring earplugs. We’ll need it for the crying.” But there was no crying, she registered, only her husband, pleading and screaming...

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Fiction writer based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Check out more of my work at: https://www.elegantliterature.com/magazine/ (Issue #005, Inescapable Infatuation)

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