Leslie Walker Trahan is a writer from Austin, Texas. Her stories and prose poems have been featured in TriQuarterly, Passages North, and New Delta Review, among other publications. You can find her online at lesliewtrahan.com.
She’s seventeen years old and standing at a bus stop in East Texas. It’s raining, and her hair is pulled into a ponytail. She’s wearing a backpack, and on the bench beside her is a green duffel bag with a broken...