Jen Palmares Meadows essays from northern California. Her writing has appeared in Brevity, The Rumpus, Denver Quarterly, The Nervous Breakdown, Quarter After Eight, Essay Daily, , and is forthcoming in Fourth Genre and Los Angeles Review. Visit her at jenpalmaresmeadows.com.
We were then young girls and our want was written on our skins. Between our legs and along our necks and wrists, our skin craved friction and more friction.