A Vintage Shorts ';Short Story Month' Selection Virginia, a copywriter at an ad agency, looks around her office one day and realizes that everyonewell, nearly everyoneis pregnant. Can she be happy for them? ';Babies,' included in the prestigious O. Henry anthology series in 1992, is a sharply funny and perfectly observed story of pregnancy, city living, the semantic contradiction of ';creative directors,' and finding one's place in the world. A selection from Ann Packer's luminous first collection Mendocino and Other Stories. An eBook short.