Ina Roy-Faderman is an assistant fiction editor at Rivet Journal. Her work appears in Inscape, Right Hand Pointing, Medical Literary Messenger, and others. She holds an MD-MA (Stanford) and a PhD (UC Berkeley). She lives in the SF Bay Area and teaches philosophy for Oregon State University. Find her on Twitter @inafelltoearth.
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?