Since Baby’s birth, she had learned that the first few months of motherhood were about fatigue and leakiness. — Nalo Hopkinson

She had a yearning to lose herself in this noisy throng of people going about the business of staying alive.

“I can’t keep giving my will into other people hands no more, ain’t? I have to decide what I want to do for myself.” No answer. It wasn’t going to tell her.

“Mami,” Ti-Jeanne said, “I should go and get Baby. He ain’t take to Tony.”

“Hmph. Child got some sense, then. More than some I could name. But leave he there. He have to learn that he can’t always have what he want.”