Julie Odell is a MacDowell fellow whose fiction has appeared in Five Chapters, New World Writing Quarterly, Atticus Review, and The Intentional. Her nonfiction has appeared on NPR and in Fourth Genre. She teaches writing in Philadelphia and is currently working on a novel. For more about Julie check out: https://julie-odell.com
I don’t care that our mothers are sisters, or that we’re supposed to be friends because we are cousins. With you dead, the whole summer will take a different direction. I won’t have to share the bed in the middle…
