the episode, final
Here is the final installment of Jarrod, his mother, and their days of judgment.
Jarrod’s mother is holding up the backpack between them, like a trophy. Her cheeks sag even as she smiles at him. Her shirt is stretched open in front between the buttons, the fabric pulling. Her skin looked boiled and pink like canned meat.
-I was straightening up, she says, And look here what I found by the door…
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What would you like to be remembered for? Which things do you embellish, edit, or try to forgot altogether?
These are some of the questions I considered when writing the short story Legacy, The first story in The One You Can remember. It introduces the unifying event of the collection: the disappearance of eighth grader Sara Parson, and follows Principal Markus Jackson as he comes to term with this loss.
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