“Thoughts Leading Up to My Successful Au Pair Application,” by Candace Walsh (Fiction ’19)

2019 fiction graduate Candace Walsh recently had a story featured in Complete Sentence. Read an excerpt below:

Thoughts Leading Up to My Successful Au Pair Application

The son I carried for <famous actress> (I know who she is but can’t say: hint hint, she’s winkingly Sapphic enough to quicken our pulses) is five, quarantining with Mum and her husband (harrumph) on their English estate, the article said she humbly admits to success with homemade crumpets and wryly bemoans daily squabbles over home learning; a child often sulks and balks when his mother picks up schoolmarmish chalk…they’d never need to know he once swelled my belly and plucked my sciatic nerve like a fresco’s cherub plays a tiny lute, as I, back then, nineteen, disowned for my exposed desires and all alone, soothed myself to sleep with think of the money, the money, the money…

Read the piece in its entirety here: https://www.completesentencelit.com/post/thoughts-leading-up-to-my-successful-au-pair-application