Hi, I'm Lovar Burton and this is Lovar Burton Reads.

In every episode I hand pick a different piece of short fiction and I read it to you.

The only thing these stories have in common is that I love them and I hope you will too.

Well y'all, today I've got part 2 of Nettie Accord Four Story, Mother of Invention.

It's part of a 3 part series I'm doing and next week I will sit down with Nettie herself

to talk about how she crafted the future in this story and some other stuff.

If you didn't listen to part 1, please check out last week's episode to get caught up.

Now when we left off, our protagonist Anwali was actively in labor with no one but her

smart house Obi-3 to help her.

She had stubbornly decided not to leave New Delta before the next pollen storm hit, even

though her doctor had warned her that she was deathly allergic and would risk her life

by doing so.

She's been abandoned by her friends and family, not to mention the father of her child.

For now she's pushed all of that down and away and she's bringing a child into the

world.

Please check out the content advisory in the written episode description if you are so

inclined and if you're ready, let's take a deep breath.

Mother of Invention by Nettie Okora 4 Part 2

She'd been crying for 9 months and she cried for yet another 10 minutes and then another

contraction hit and she forgot everything.

As the minutes passed and the contractions became faster and faster, she didn't remember

where the pillow came from that propped her up or how her legs held themselves apart.

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