Deborah J. Hunter is a retired technical writer living in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Two pieces from her creative non-fiction collection, “Enchanted Exile” received awards from Southwest Writers and Tulsa Library Essay Contest. The full collection is under agent consideration. She is a Millay Colony for The Arts residency alumni.
I was on our excuse for a back porch, no one ever put in screens, and it smelled like oranges under my finger nails. Jack lowered himself into the lawn chair next to the old Boy Scout cot I was on, looking up at the...