Madison Cyr is a fiction writer based in Southern Indiana. She has an MFA in fiction from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. Her fiction has appeared in Carve Magazine, Leon Literary Review, and elsewhere.
I named her Christina. She began as they all did—a greasy secretion that shimmered and then solidified into a milky coat of wax. It reminded me of the hospital where we were only allowed to write with crayons because...