THE BIRTH YARD

In a contemporary cult known as The Den that has withdrawn from mainstream society, men control female fertility absolutely, with the full cooperation of the women. On their eighteenth birthdays, girls are introduced to sex. After they become pregnant, they are sent to the Birth Yard.

There has been no apocalypse, there is no totalitarian society, and the story is not set in the future. The time is now.

Sable Ursu has just turned eighteen and a Match has been chosen for her.

Now she is ready to breed.

Ottawa native Mallory Tater holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and is the publisher of Rahila's Ghost Press, a poetry chapbook press. Her debut collection of poetry This Will Be Good (Bookthug Press) was released in spring 2018 (https://bookthug.ca/shop/books/this-will-be-good-by-mallory-tater). Mallory's poetry and short stories have been published in literary magazines across Canada, including Room, CV2, The Malahat Review, and The Fiddlehead. She was the recipient of CV2's 2016 Young Buck Poetry Prize. She lives in Vancouver.