Mines published on Writing In A Woman's Voice on June 28, 2024
Reprint previously published in Concurrent Earths (2021).
Originally published in Mirror Worlds (2019 as April D. Brown).
Mines is a disability short story about a culture that could exist in the future, or may have existed in the past. A single women, dying of cancer, has to break several laws, in order to provide for her young daughter. Those laws are meant to protect, and yet, without healthcare, they do not protect either the mother, or the child.
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