This one reads like Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery. On the cusp of adulthood, Vera grows up in a small town that faces a singular affliction: some mothers vanish, disappearing into the clouds. As her peers begin to marry and become mothers, they speculate about who might be the first to go, each wondering about her own fate. When motherhood comes for Vera, she is faced with the question: will she be able to stay and mother her beloved child, or will she disappear?