Shoshauna Shy

It dawns on you that the moment you knew he’d never call again didn’t come when you emerged from the shower, skin flushed and steamed, the sleeves of your bathrobe knotted loosely about your hips as you scooped your phone up from the nightstand. He had left five hours before, rushing out not because he […]

She had a new name. Hair bleached to white sand. An out-of-state address. A new boyfriend who suspected nothing. Yet every year when the Midwestern forsythia bloomed, Ella was back at the muddy Michigan campsite hearing the skritch of duct tape pulling off its spool, smelling the sweat and woodsmoke in her clothes, feeling the