About Juanita E. Mantz
Juanita E. Mantz
Juanita E. Mantz grew up in the Inland Empire. She is a writer, performer and deputy public defender in Riverside specializing in mental health law. Her stories and essays have been published in numerous literary journals and magazines including The Acentos Review, The James Franco Review, As/Us, Inlandia Journal, and Bitch magazine. She is a four-time participant in VONA’s Summer Writing Workshop and is hard at work on her memoir in progress, “My Inland Empire: Hometown Stories”. You can read her blog at http://wwwlifeofjemcom-jemmantz.blogspot.com. She is a proud resident of San Bernardino and loves punk rock music.
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April 19th, 2018 | by Juanita E. Mantz
I bought the electronic pregnancy test at Walmart. I was three days late and I had to pee so I