This story won first prize in the 2003 Clark College Fiction Contest judged by Gina Ochsner. I repost it now because of the death of Roe. v. Wade last June at the hands of the Supreme Court of The United States.
Fance thought she could get it done over in Odessa. A girl from the coffee shop went there for hers and was back to work the next day. She looked just the same, only slower, and when Fance asked her about it she said it was nothing much, that…
