The Mammogram Machine
Not a Cautionary Tale
7 min readMar 22, 2022
“I know it’s probably easy for me to say,” Owen said, “but I really don’t think you need to be nervous.”
In front of their car, a woman yanked open the glass door to the clinic and went inside, leaving the blowing snow to swirl on the sidewalk. Val watched it. It wasn’t graceful, but frantic, trapped in its draft spiral.
