In John’s bedroom were dozens of photos of a girl I knew, but he didn’t. She and I played together often as children.

I had a good idea of what he did with those pictures.

Back home, I destroyed every photo of her I’d ever cut out of the newspaper.

Brian Burmeister is Program Chair of English and Communication at Ashford University. He co-wrote the non-fiction play Farmscape: The Changing Rural Environment, published by Ice Cube Press.