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Loren wishes
for a baby girl. Perhaps it’s not wise of her to wish for a girl more than she
wishes for anything else, but Loren has wanted a little girl to call her own
for years, and now that she’s finally gotten pregnant, she wishes.
Every day,
when she wakes up, Loren wishes for a baby girl. Every night, before she falls
asleep, Loren wishes for a baby girl. Her stomach gets larger, and her hopes
grow higher, until one day Loren feels horrible, stabbing pains in her stomach
and knows for certain that something’s wrong.
She calls an
ambulance through the spasms of pain, clenching her teeth tightly together and
screaming anyway because she can’t stop herself. There’s something wrong. She’s
so scared, and her husband’s at work, and she’s all alone, just her and her
baby, and oh, god, she doesn’t care if her baby’s a little girl after all, as
long as her child survives.
Into the
ambulance, and there are paramedics around Loren, asking her questions that she
wants to answer, but suddenly it’s so very difficult to breathe and everything
hurts worse, and the machines are screaming, and no, she doesn’t want this.
It’s all too much, and she’s never been more terrified in her life, but not for
herself, no.
Her baby.
Please, someone, save her baby. ------------------------------------
One single seed of poison can sow so much despair. Several of them can change the course of an entire life, as young Bai finds out. Who is she, and who is she meant to become? These are questions that Bai must decide for herself.
This is a tale of woe and sorrow and hope, a modern retelling of the old classic fairy tale "Snow White". Because happily ever after doesn't always necessarily happen, and wishes don't always come true, but sometimes, if we're very lucky, they do.
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