account_circle by Sheila Thorne
Sheila Thorne has worked on factory assembly lines and taught writing at California State University, San Jose. Her fiction has appeared in Nimrod, Stand Magazine, Louisiana Literature, and many other journals, most recently Evening Street Review, and will soon be up on Storyscape Journal.

Macro-Fiction

Ziggurat

Issue No. 170 ~ July, 2011

I look around at the solid glass wall, cathedral ceiling, Oriental rugs, squishy soft sofas, and wonder whether Enedina, who lives in this house eight hours a day, is under the impression that me and George live in similar surroundings. If she were to know what kind of place we really live in, would she ever consent to letting us have her baby?