Human Slices 1st edition

Human Slices is a love story about a woman who is happily childfree by choice. Or is it that she is childless by destiny? No matter. For her, it's a natural decision guided by what's inside her own "human slices." No hand-wringing or regret, no drama or cost/benefit analysis. Being a mother just doesn't interest her.

She spells her name S-A-L-M but pronounces it Sam. "The l is silent," she says. It's her way of combining her given name, Samantha, with her father's nickname for her, Little Salmon.

On a promising spring day in Chicago, she visits the Museum of Science and Industry and makes her way to the human slices exhibit. It's always been one of her favorite displays, a series of vivisections of the human body, real flesh and bones. She is fascinated by the thought that the same shapes and forms are stacked inside her own body, taking charge of her moves and decisions.

When a tall, intriguing man approaches the exhibit, Salm makes a natural choice: She follows him.