Elizabeth Maria Naranjo lives in Tempe, Arizona, with her husband and two children. Her work has been published in Brevity Magazine, Superstition Review, Hunger Mountain, The Portland Review, SLAB Literary Magazine, Literary Mama, Motherwell, Hospital Drive, YA Review Network (YARN), and a few other places. Her novel The Fourth Wall was released in June 2014 through WiDo Publishing. Links to Elizabeth's work can be found on her website, elizabethmarianaranjo.com.
We wait until the soft explosions above deaden to absolute silence—not the kind of silence that listens but the kind that sleeps, and teenage girls know the difference. We wait until our murmurs turn to whispers and...