THE VISIBLE WOMAN was published in a print edition of 580 Split.

Her brain: Here it is–a small, pink plastic nugget. There is a shallow sluice between hemispheres and variegations along the lobes. It could be a tumor excavated from the breast, this small lump. The Visible Woman takes out her brush and paints the slick crenellations of gray matter the color of labia. She loves, most of all, the naming of dura mater.

Author’s Note: I wrote this story about the imagined life of the 1960’s medical model, The Visible Woman, who would have had to create a life with transparency as both her greatest flaw and greatest strength. The act of writing this was empowering for me in ways that I could not have imagined at the time.