She Who Remains

This is a constitutionally recognized gender transition, sanctified through a swearing ceremony, which bestows upon the woman the rights and freedoms of men, liberties she’s heretofore been deprived of, and liberties all other women are still deprived of. Slowly, the nightmares began to appear less and less. Then they came only as shadows and feelings, without images. The mass, found inside the woman’s abdominal cavity, weighed 1.8 kg and had bones, hair, and teeth, as well as a growth resembling an umbilical cord.