Just One Thing with Lynne Beckenstein

Lynne Beckenstein’s story “The 7-11 That Exists in Every Reality” reimagines the uterus as a time machine. Here she shares just one thing about the piece: 

As someone who had children via pregnancy, I'm always eager to read work honoring that experience as a resource for creativity and intellectual vigor. Writing this piece, I had fun thinking about the reproductive body as a literary text, which, for me, means that it's a portal into the wild, exhilarating weirdness of time. This narrator can read moments from her own girlhood and motherhood as happening all at once, in a narrative that's not structured by linear chronology, but rather by her own embodied knowledge of contingency and transformation. I can relate to that, as well as to her big feelings about Coke Slurpees.