Alanna Weissman is an MFA candidate at New York University, where she edits the Washington Square Review, and she also holds a BA in creative writing and studio art from Colgate University and an MS from Columbia Journalism School. Her work across genres has appeared or is forthcoming in The New York Times, The Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle, Entropy, Salon, Mic, Barely South Review, Clackamas Literary Review, and elsewhere.
Summer was ending, and my sister was shrinking. I first noticed when we were sitting on the dock near the lake at our summer camp; as she stretched her bare…