It’s more dangerous today than when I was that age, thirteen-year-old girls knowing too much and being bored. Their little girl laughs belie their women’s walks as they pass. They’d never believe I could have been like them, and maybe I never was.
But Leitha was. And I was there.
Sandra Maddux-Creech earned her BA at Antioch University in Ohio and her MFA at Colorado State University. Her work has appeared in Margin and Ballyhoo Stories and is soon to appear in SmokeLong Quarterly.