17 millimetres

Content : The story of Mona, a teenager like any other, who finds herself pregnant after her first time.

"How do you end up at a clinic for an abortion
Wearing unicorn pants?"

That summer, at a teen camp, Mona and Liam had sex for the first time. It was good.
Except the condom broke, and they didn’t dare ask the camp leaders to help them get the morning-after pill.
But after all, Mona had had her period just a few days earlier… so nothing could happen, right?

Six weeks later, she has to face the truth: she’s pregnant. And according to the information she found online, she’s already hosting a 17-millimetre embryo.

Seventeen millimetres — small, yet huge… Too much when you don’t want a child right now, at sixteen. Mona has a choice, the right to have an abortion. But that doesn’t make it any easier.

A free-verse novel of breathtaking honesty about abortion.

Shortlisted for the Incorruptibles Award 2025-2026.