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Ellyn Gaydos

Ellyn Gaydos’s work has appeared in the Columbia Journal, Logic magazine, Ninth Letter, and the Texas Review. Her first book, Pig Years, is forthcoming (Knopf, 2022).

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Brother Sun, Sister Moon

Spring 2022 | Essays

At Alice and Henry’s farm, it is time to mate the sows. Henry even bought a home pregnancy test for them—it is inserted into the vagina and simply beeps, with maddeningly little explanation, if it judges them to have conceived.