The Car Seat in the Hatchback

Keisha Williams was twenty-three, working double shifts at the hospital in Macon, Georgia, when the social worker called on a Tuesday evening. A newborn — her cousin's baby — had no one. Could Keisha take him? Tonight?

She sat on the edge of her bed in her studio apartment. She had three hundred forty dollars in savings. No crib. No partner. No plan for this.

"How would I even..." she started.

The social worker waited.