BONNIE J. ROUGH’s essays have appeared in the anthologies Modern Love: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion (Three Rivers Press) and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007 (Houghton Mifflin). She teaches at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she lives with her husband and walks around the neighborhood lake almost every day, no matter what the weather.

Stories For An Unborn Son

by Bonnie J. Rough, April 2008 (Issue 388)