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Exhale is a totally volunteer-run publication that strives for a literary audience. We are always looking for new contributors from many different types of background: essays, commentary, personal revelations, art, photography, or another medium that reveals a less-than-obvious aspect of pregnancy/infant loss, childless-not-by-choice, or infertility struggles in a creative and compelling way.
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- Anything that is religiously or politically preachy or anti-abortion, even if it is creative.
- Contributions in a casual girlfriend-to-girlfriend tone.
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Hi,
I have recently published a book called A Common Thread. It is 16 personal accounts of faith, fertility issues, and miscarriage.
It is NOT a self-help book, or a “how-to-get-through-this-issue’ type of book. It doesn not preach and does not attempt to wrap fertility issues or loss into a neat little package. It is most definitely not, “I tried, I cried, I prayed, I believed, I conceived.”
The journey one findds themselves on in these situations is complex, personal, and emotional. This book aims to just truthfully and bravefully share people’s exoeriences. Not everyone in the book received the longed for hope of a child. Some undertook fertility treatment, some did not.
My hope in writing, editing and compiling this book, was to have something to put into a fellow sojourners hands; that when they read it, they might not feel s o alone. My prayer was that they would be able to relte to different parts of different peoples journeys and see a glimmer of hope. Not necessarily for the outcome, but for the steps they take along the way.
Blessings,
Catherine Sylvester