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Jul 29, 2022Liked by Sam Colt

You're very skilled at communicating emotion in your writing, deliberately creating an intended emotional state in the reader.

The baby's crowning is easily the best paragraph. I've witnessed childbirth, it's a transcendentally beautiful experience of love and renewal. You made it feel horrifying, without being kitschy or ironically detaching from the moment. I've never seen that done before.

But I think you made a mistake in the following paragraphs. The doctors are social functions with human occupants. They are not societal actors, they are replaceable components. The horror does not originate with them. It begins prior to the narrative, when abortion is outlawed, but capital, that demonic societal acid, persists. When it erodes and breaks and consumes the love between a mother and her newborn child.

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