Betty Martin holds a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania, and between those degrees, she earned an MLIS from Dominican University. Her short stories have appeared in Breakwater Review, Make Literary Magazine, Roanoke Review, and Cagibi, with two stories selected for nomination for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. She lives in the Midwest with her family and a rescue cat named Max.
The giant orb in the night sky makes our friend’s house look like a doll’s house. One of us mentions this and another of us scoffs, “As if.” We clutch sleeping bags in our arms, plain ones without characters. We borrow...