Mommy Wars

Warnings: Violence and possible death involving small children

   

 

    Michaela tried to keep her eyes straight ahead as she strode down the corridor.  She focused on the soft thuds of her boots against the slick dark floor.  She didn’t want to look at the gray boxes that lined the walls.  The boxes were opaque.  Naturally they were.  Michaela couldn’t see the little bodies.  But they were there.  Of course they were there.

    Michaela stopped at the end of the corridor and pulled a crumpled slip of paper from her pocket.  Jean worked there as a tech and she’d been able to supply them with the codes.  Michaela punched in the combination and pushed open the door.  Another corridor.  More gray boxes.

    Michaela shook her head.  What kind of parent would do this?  She couldn’t imagine.  She wouldn’t ever.  Not in a million years.  No decent parent would.  She might have thought about it, just for a second.  Just for a fraction of a second when she’d been nine months pregnant with Phil, and Dani had just whined constantly and wanted to be carried everywhere.  It was natural to think about it.  Of course it was.  They made it so easy, especially with the government covering the first six months.  They said it increased birth rates.  Was for the good of the country.  What did they know?  Well that would stop now.  

    Michaela kept moving.  The sooner she got this over with the better.  Then she could go home.  Go home to Phil and Dani.

    Michaela took care of her kids.  She was a real mother.  Not like them.  Maybe it made things a little simpler to cryogenically freeze your oldest child for a few months when the next was born, but it just wasn’t right.

    There were even reports that it could be dangerous.  If the engineers didn’t monitor the process closely during the unfreezing then the kids could die.  Parents just didn’t care.

    She had reached the computers.  It was almost over.  People were going to realize how barbaric this was.  They’d see what their selfishness cost them.  Michaela took a deep breath and began shut down procedures for the center.  Maybe this would teach women to be good mothers.  Good mothers like her.