Bess Winter's work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in American Short Fiction, Knee Jerk, Alice Blue Review, Berkeley Fiction Review, Gargoyle, PANK, and elsewhere. She is finishing a collection and starting a novel. She has a website at besswinter.wordpress.com.
When we were all eight, the girls in my grade decided we had secret worlds. One world belonged to me and my best friend Chloe, and the other world belonged…