Who Will Greet You At Home

Title: Who Will Greet You At Home
Author: Lesley Nneka Armiah
Published in: The New Yorker, October 26th 2015
Link: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/26/who-will-greet-you-at-home
---The yarn baby lasted a good month, emitting dry, cotton-soft gurgles and pooping little balls of lint, before Ogechi snagged its thigh on a nail and it unravelled as she continued walking, mistaking its little huffs for the beginnings of hunger, not the cries of an infant being undone. By the time she noticed, it was too late, the leg a tangle of fibre, and she pulled the string the rest of the way to end it, rather than have the infant grow up maimed. If she was to mother a child, to mute and subdue and fold away parts of herself, the child had to be perfect.
Yarn had been a foolish choice, she knew, the stuff for women of leisure, who could cradle wool in the comfort of their own cars and in secure houses devoid of loose nails.
Category:Best Short Story