It takes thirty years for my older sister to swim here from the Pacific coast. She no longer has vocal cords or letters on her mind. Instead, she blinks rapidly. Raises a pale webbed hand out of the breeze-ruffled...
Lakeside Mermaid
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Jessica Hudson
Jessica Hudson is a graduate teaching assistant working on her Creative Writing MFA at Northern Michigan University. She is an associate editor for Passages North, and her work has been published or is forthcoming in Dovecote, Stoneboat, and The Pinch, among others.