The narrator of the story writes in 2nd person in this story about infertility. Where the story tracks presumably the narrator’s struggle with azoospermia and trying to have a child. The narrator’s story is interrupted by the narrative of Nathaniel Pritchard, a Puritan man from 1600s Connecticut. Goodman Pritchard finds himself struggling to impregnate his wife, eventually even believing that his genitalia has disappeared. The two stories alternate between past and present versions of the same conflict. For Goodman Pritchard, it is potentially leaving his wife in order for her to find a man who can give her a child, and for the narrator it is using online sperm-bank profiles. A unique look at the pains of infertility.