Pamela is a fiction writer from Versailles, Kentucky. She has been published in the Sierra Nevada Review, the Kentucky Kernel, and was long-listed for the 2024 winter Tadpole Press 100-Word Writing Contest. Historically, she has been known by the following titles: ESL teacher, freelance CBD blogger, retail sales associate, recruiter (horribly behind in her sales), and pilates instructor. She loves coffee, but she’s trying to drink tea because she read somewhere that it’s good for you. She hates tea, though.
Helen and I had been friends since the first year of our ex-patriatism—friends in the way that twenty-something women could be: seemingly out of the thin air in which we flew and flocked together like birds, the loudest caw-er organizing…