Award-winning writer Elizabeth Heineman wants to contribute her story to these pages. For copyright reasons we cannot reprint the entire story here but have provided the link to “Still Life with Baby” below which won first place non-fiction at the 2012 New Millennium Writing awards. Here’s an introduction:
“When my son was stillborn, I did two things I’d never have imagined doing a day earlier. I loved a dead body. And I wrote. Both were flailing attempts to change the horror that every parent of a stillborn baby lives with: If no one knew this child, then no one will remember him, and if no one remembers him, then he’ll have left the world without a trace.
“My days with Thor, this story – those are Thor’s traces.”
“Still Life with Baby” by Elizabeth Heineman.
