adolescence
Brownie Scouts Ruthie and Shelley insist that they are quite enough experienced for the rainbow bridging, and they boil their vests in a cedar sprig…
And how many were there? The entire senior class, close to three hundred. Some administrators; a score of teachers. The football coach, six parents, one…
The fifth year seniors had been told often it was time, but they hung on with Members Only jackets and deviant eyewear. They called themselves…
She flicks the foil to the ground and grips the rickety swing chains, two teenage fists wiping grease up and down in a motion she…
Three Davids swimming under a bridge. Two Davids diving gracelessly from a buoy. One David’s thigh with a birthmark the color of a raspberry just…
Hanging out with Khalil wasn’t like hanging out with anyone else. We ran through the streets like tyrants, orange peels flipping over our shoulders, cars…
You taught me to move fast, duck and dodge, fist to face, shoulders squared. We spent two summers play fighting and smoking. I’d curl like…
I lived by apple orchards filling a small valley between hills of oak trees. There was a cement aqueduct running in front of our house…
The first slumber party in Angie Bushnell’s unfinished basement I’m light as a feather, afraid I am too fat but stiff as a board, light…