Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun

Author:Nami Mun [Mun, Nami]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781594488542
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

First, I went to a hospital.

In the crowded emergency room, a nurse behind the counter told me they didn’t perform that sort of thing there, that I should go to a clinic. Then she asked me to step aside since I didn’t really have an emergency. “Tell that to my stomach,” I told her. She said that wasn’t where the baby was.

Then I went to a clinic.

The sun felt cold, and I was proud of myself for having shot up exactly the right amount. Just enough to see the world without being in it. Everything—the cars and buses and curses from cabbies, the bodies that rushed by, as well as the ones that surrounded me like zombies—appeared beautiful and cinematic in my private viewfinder. “God loves you. This is from God,” a woman whispered right in my ear, holding out an egg. She clung to my arm. Her hair smelled of wood polish. We were in the middle of the sidewalk, in front of the clinic, and the woman had silver hair and blue discs for eyes. “I really love you,” I told her, and was certain that that was the right answer. I walked past her, and now a boy came forward, a blond one, wearing a keyboard necktie. “God loves you. This is from God,” he said. I fingered his tie like I was playing a song and moved past him, almost running over a girl who came up to my waist. She was maybe five years old. “God told me you can have this,” the girl said, smiling, offering her gift with both hands. I took the egg. It was hardboiled. The sky was blue and had been swept clean of clouds. I wondered if it was Easter. I thanked the girl, put the egg in my jacket pocket, and walked into the clinic.

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