“Gauging others’ happiness by her own preference for company, Will’s mom took Will’s introversion for depression. Her mom always nudged her to make friends. Meet boys. Make boyfriends. Will wondered if teen pregnancy would’ve set her mom at ease, convinced her of Will’s joie de vivre and put to rest her insistence on the pixie cut.”
Enjoy this audio recording of “St. Elmo’s Fire” by Katherine P.F. Holmes from Vol. 35:1 of CALYX Journal! Buy your copy here!
Katherine P. F. Holmes is a fiction writer and MFA student at Emerson College. Her work has been published in Eternal Haunted Summer, Litbreak Magazine, Cauldron Anthology, and others. She lives in Boston, MA.
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