Megan Nichols is the author of the chapbook Animal Unfit (Belle Point Press). Her poems have appeared in The Threepenny Review, Poetry Daily, Plume, Iron Horse Literary Review, and elsewhere. She serves as Managing Editor at Variant Literature and co-founded Lemon Grove Writers, an online community for writers. She lives in Arkansas.
In the time between emptying, the baby’s mother curled atop the spare mattress in the baby’s would-be room. The couple had bought two mattresses from a motel’s going-out-of-business sale—a king for the master bedroom, a full for the spare. They’d…
