Caroline Beuley is an alumni of the Breadloaf Writers Conference and the Oxford Advanced Creative Writing Seminars and is currently pursuing an MFA in Fiction Writing at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Her writing is published or forthcoming in Ghost Parachute, Big Muddy, Flash Fiction Magazine, and Maudlin House, among others. In her free time, she loves to take her dachshund, Dumbledore, on walks and throw bits of paper around for her cat, Eloise.
When I grew breasts, I stopped taking the bus to school. Instead I walked along the edge of the wetlands that protruded like a dank finger between my home and school. It was seven and a half times longer than the walk...