Holly M. Wendt is Director of Creative Writing at Lebanon Valley College and recipient of a Robert and Charlotte Baron Fellowship for Creative and Performing Artists from the American Antiquarian Society and a fellowship from the Jentel Foundation. Their writing has appeared in Shenandoah, Four Way Review, Memorious, and elsewhere. Learn more at hollymwendt.com and find them on Twitter at @hmwendt.
I wasn’t looking at them, but I felt I should have been. It’s an act of bravery, to see and be seen, isn’t it? A way to connect? And wasn’t I, just then, needing to feel something like brave?