{"id":5024,"date":"2026-08-03T15:52:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=5024"},"modified":"2026-08-03T15:52:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:52:41","slug":"new-fiction-a-woman-grapples-with-motherhood-during-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=5024","title":{"rendered":"New fiction: A woman grapples with motherhood during the Covid-19 pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sc0.blr1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/article\/214774-qencpboneu-1785259156.jpeg\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>We are bunkered down in the house, no contact with the world outside. My husband watches television all day. The news laps against my ears like waves at high tide. I constantly find myself in the kitchen \u2013 cooking, cleaning, doing the dishes, washing vegetables, chopping, cooking, cleaning. Rinse and repeat. The skin on my hands is eroding; bits get washed away under the tap and fall into the drain, reaching god knows where. Between chores, I remember to pop my pills. I try to be regular and sometimes even set alarms on my phone. But when the alarms go off, I forget why I set them. My husband has taught me to write the purpose against the alarm, but it\u2019s too much of a bother. In fact, to tell you the truth \u2013 and please don\u2019t share this with anyone, for they will find it ludicrous \u2013 I am mortally scared of phones. When mine begins to ring, I startle each time, jumpy at the thought of stuttering and stammering into it and getting all jumbled up. I would much rather see people in person than speak with them on the phone. But lately, people have shrunk to voices;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scroll.in\/article\/1094530\/new-fiction-a-woman-grapples-with-motherhood-during-the-covid-19-pandemic?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=public\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/scroll.in\/article\/1094530\/new-fiction-a-woman-grapples-with-motherhood-during-the-covid-19-pandemic?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=public' target='_blank'>Read the original article on scroll.in<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are bunkered down in the house, no contact with the world outside. My husband watches television all day. The news laps against my ears like waves at high tide. I constantly find myself in the kitchen \u2013 cooking, cleaning, doing the dishes, washing vegetables, chopping, cooking, cleaning. Rinse and repeat. The skin on my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,36],"tags":[13,29,33],"class_list":["post-5024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-news","category-share-suggestions","tag-impact-aapl","tag-signal-avoid","tag-stage-stage-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}