The Egg Said Nothing - Caris O'Malley
The Egg Said Nothing
Caris O’Malley
~Chapter 1~
In which the narrator lays an egg, keeps it warm and royally fucks some guy up with a shovel.
The morning I laid the egg is just a blur to me. I say laid because it seems to be the best word for the situation. I have no idea how it came out of me, but it did. I imagine it growing in my belly, slowly gathering its features from my raw genetic material. But it doesn’t have my mother’s shell. It doesn’t have my own runny yolk.
I w ...