There were nights of learning to dance, practicing with the dog. At fifteen, too old for scraps, I was the star of my own disaster movie, climbing out a window to meet a man by the creek, kissing to frog music while my mother slept, dreaming of her lost loves.

Meg Pokrass is the Series Co-Editor of Best Microfiction. Her new collection, The First Law of Holes: New and Selected will be published by Dzanc Books.