But for his first overnight campout, I was shut out. The almost three year age gap between us was ignored as he invited me to all his school parties, I made my first communion ahead of time with him and one of his class photos included me. Make a ‘V’ with the strings, cross one over the other and pull. He was my playmate and mentor who gave me the confidence to ride my bicycle over bone-shaking gravel and taught me to tie my sneakers so I wouldn’t fail kindergarten. My brother Kevin and I, nearly identical small-boned redheads, were glued together. Perched on the hillside overlooking the campsite where my nine-year-old brother and his friend were setting up for their first sleep out on our neighbor’s property, I watched pegs driven into the ground to support a backyard lean-to and waited for a beckoning hand gesture to join the two Boy Scouts. You can purchase Issue 2 on the shop page. UK’s Dodo Ink will feature her work in an upcoming anthology. Conza’s writing has appeared in Longreads, Electric Literature, Los Angeles Review of Books, AGNI and elsewhere. We are excited to present in full our featured story from Issue 2: Aftermath, by Yvonne Conza.
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