Ivana Milaković: Wings (for Woman Scream Festival)

It's not that she didn't want to get married at nine. Or have a baby at ten.

She didn't understand what a marriage was. Or having a baby.

She dressed her baby up like a doll, and sang her little songs.

And carefully hid her daughter's tiny, budding wings.

And waited.

Ivana Milaković is a speculative fiction writer and the author of three short story collections. Writes in Serbian and English. Translated into Romanian.