Satya

This story was originally published in Day One, a weekly literary journal dedicated to short fiction and poetry from emerging writers.

If only reality could resemble the fantasy of what pregnancy is supposed to be like—the brimming excitement, the feelings of significance, a healthy glow. But for Jenny, a young mother-to-be recently relocated from NYC to the suburbs, pregnancy hasn’t done a thing to cure her incessant self-doubt and loneliness. Without her job and her city friends to anchor her, Jenny must face her life—a kind but slightly distant husband, a friend’s obsessively child-centered existence, and the fact of her own common ordinariness. In a quest for self-fulfillment, Jenny turns to a prenatal yoga class, hoping that it will provide companionable understanding and a sense of wholeness. With fleeting glimpses of truth and clarity, Satya is a story for all of us whose lives haven’t turned out as imagined.