Yasuko Thanh

May 1, 2024 | hazlitt.net | Lauren Quinn |Alison Motluk |Yasuko Thanh

“It hurt,” my friend told me. “They don’t tell you that it hurts.”Her voice came heavy through my headphones as I scrubbed the dinner dishes. “Like, I could feel the needle going through all the layers—skin, fat, muscle—and I could feel when it entered my uterus. It just felt so wrong.”My hands fumbled the dish they had been washing. “Jesus,” I muttered into the phone. My friend had been nervous to do the amniocentesis.

May 31, 2023 | hazlitt.net | Yasuko Thanh |Jen Agg |Ainslie Hogarth |Colin Barrett

I met my ex-husband as a single mother of two with a grade nine education. But in my first year of university as a mature student, I was brimming with a sense of accomplishment and liberty. I felt like Shiki who wrote,WE ROWED INTO FOG,                        AND OUT THROUGH FOG…                        OH HOW BLUE            HOW BRIGHT THE WIDE SEA!As a child, the blue had always welcomed me.