“All right, let’s take it out,” I said, leaning forward in my chair and sighing heavily at the doctor. What a waste. For the past month, I’d had inside my body a gnawing little T-shaped device made out of plastic and copper, called ParaGard. It had seemed to me an ideal birth control solution: invisible, […]
Author: Carson Briggs Frame
Carson Frame is a freelance journalist working toward her master's in Literary Reportage at NYU. You can find more of her work in Souciant, Chronogram and Metroland: The Capital Region's Alt-Weekly.