What you leave out, when you tell the police about it, is how the woman reminded you of your mother—charismatic and brash, with short-cropped black hair greying at the temples. The woman had dark eyes that flashed when...
Mother
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L. Michelle Nichols
L. Michelle Nichols has been published in Bitter Oleander, descant, Juked, Louisiana Literature, Monkeybicycle, PANK, Permafrost, storySouth, and Texas Review. As Michelle Wright, she won second prize in The Purple Dragonfly Book Awards for the middle-grade graphic novel Audrey's Magic Nine. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Writers and the Novel Writing Certificate from Stanford University. She lives in rural West Texas with two dogs.