Amanda Hadlock is an MFA candidate at Florida State University. She received her MA in English from Missouri State University, where she also worked as the Graduate Assistant for Moon City Review. Her fiction, nonfiction, and graphic narrative work have appeared in journals such as The Florida Review, Hobart, Wigleaf, Essay Daily, WFSU/NPR's All Things Considered, New Limestone Review, Past Ten, The Lindenwood Review, Esthetic Apostle, and others.
A shrimp’s heart is in its head. You used to say your heart was in your stomach when you couldn’t get out of bed all day. You won’t eat shrimp because your dead dad who you hated used them as bait when he took you...