Mm-hmm

...

so after that, I wasn't gonna sleep on anything new by Samantha Mills.

Um, in this story, which I picked for our March 2025 short fiction spotlight, Mills wrestles with the feeling of impending doom by imagining a variety of fantastical or science fictional disasters.

Um, for example, a Hellgate opens off the coast of California, and there's also a zombifying virus pandemic.

Um, it is a, uh...

It's called "Ten Visions of the Future," but the disasters stack up in a more cumulative way throughout the story rather than being 10 totally different storylines.

[laughs]

Can you take us into that moment and what it taught you about how we show up for women in grief?

Sure.

So that piece was not just focused on grief, but it was also a diagnosis.

So I wrote that for HuffPost a couple of years ago, and the feedback that I received was amazing.

tremendous.

It essentially was about how during my many years of infertility, the last year or so that I was in treatment, I had four recurrent miscarriages in a year.

And my doctor couldn't find figure out why this kept happening.

I