Kit hopscotches her age over the trash in the parking lot where her friend was last seen more than a month ago.
Four. Five.
Feet wide.
Six.
Feet together.
Seven.
The happy little jingle is distant at first. An ice-cream truck.
Elation.
No.
A rusted white van with tinted windows.
Cecilia Dockins lives in Tennessee and spends most of her time wrangling words and parrots. She is a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in Sanitarium Magazine, HWA Poetry Showcase Volume I and III, and various anthologies. For more about Cecilia, check out her website at ceciliadockins.com.