Maggie has clouds for eyes. Also, she barely talks. Other kids have asked her how those clouds got stuck there, but she just blinks back, clouds churning. My best friend, Bernice Wallers, heard Maggie used to have eyes...
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Kara Vernor
Kara Vernor’s fiction and essays have appeared in Ninth Letter, The Normal School, The Los Angeles Review, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere. She was the recipient of an Elizabeth George Foundation scholarship, and her writing has been included in Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Fictions, The Best Small Fictions 2019, and Golden State 2017: Best New Writing from California. Her fiction chapbook, Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song, is available from Split Lip Press.