This is what can happen when you ask a girl to tell a story.
Author: Chivas Sandage
Chivas Sandage is a digital columnist at Ms. and the author of Hidden Drive, a finalist for the ForeWord Book of the Year Awards in poetry. Her poems and essays have appeared in Ms., The Rumpus, Salmagundi, Southern Humanities Review and Texas Observer, among others. The Massachusetts Cultural Council awarded Sandage a 2020 artist grant for her work on a nonfiction book about the double shooting of a lesbian teenage couple in Texas. Tweet her @ChivasSandage.
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