"Borne Away" by Haddayr Copley-Woods

In "Borne Away", Haddayr Copley-Woods glimpses into the heart of an eternal sister who forsakes immortality for motherhood.  Biddie, on a stopover between flights to and from nations where she shares her medical skills with Doctors Without Borders, visits with Brid and her young son.  Brid is aging, wrinkled and worn, but she still shares her looks with her ageless sister.  As the two get reacquainted, Brid relives the meeting with her other sister Brigit on the day she announced her pregnancy and estrangement.

The story is permeated with regret, for Brid's home and former life, but it manages to end with hope for the future.  As a mother, I sympathized with Brid's choice, for a child can fill your heart more than any other gift from God.  The prose had a mystical quality, but with grounded twenty-first century overtones.