"Afterwards, no one could quite remember how it had begun. It seemed to have happened imperceptibly at first, and then one day, it was a fait accompli. No one could remember what it had been like to have a mom who was plump and smelled like cooking and a little sweat. It seemed they had always been tall and slender, goddesslike, and smelling of designer perfume." A tongue-in-cheek contemplation on the blessings of artificial motherhood in a bio-engineered future. Short and funny (1,300 words).